Results 1 to 24 of 24

Thread: Inequality is good!

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    has a Senior Member HoreTore's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    Norway
    Posts
    12,014

    Default Inequality is good!

    If a society is to achieve growth and progress, initiative and effort has to be rewarded.

    Inequality is therefore not an evil, but a necessity to achieve a good society.
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

  2. #2
    Darkside Medic Senior Member rory_20_uk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Taplow, UK
    Posts
    8,690
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    I completely agree.

    There has to be a reward for striving. To reallocate wealth too zealously stifles innovation and crushes enterprise.

    An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
    Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
    "If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
    If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
    The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill

  3. #3

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Yes, when people use "inequality is bad" as shorthand for "unjust inequality is bad, for example such and such etc" they get into problems. But I don't think the best response is more shorthand.

  4. #4
    Mr Self Important Senior Member Beskar's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Location
    Albion
    Posts
    15,930
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    If a society is to achieve growth and progress, initiative and effort has to be rewarded.

    Inequality is therefore not an evil, but a necessity to achieve a good society.
    No.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    Yes, when people use "inequality is bad" as shorthand for "unjust inequality is bad, for example such and such etc" they get into problems. But I don't think the best response is more shorthand.
    Yes.
    Days since the Apocalypse began
    "We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
    "Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."

  5. #5
    has a Senior Member HoreTore's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    Norway
    Posts
    12,014

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    No.



    Yes.
    C'mon Beskar, expand on it!!
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

  6. #6
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Inequality in what sense? I notice people seem to be treating it as a given that inequality is always in reference solely to economic matters but what about gender inequality? Surely there is little that is positive to be said about that?
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

  7. #7
    Senior Member Senior Member Brenus's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Wokingham
    Posts
    3,523

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Yeah. It is good only if you are in the top squad...
    Joke: God said: "Some will be men and some will be women. God said: Some will be black and some will be white. God said: Some will be ugly and some will be handsome, some will be small and some will be tall.
    And for the small ugly black women, it will be very hard"
    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.

    "I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
    "You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
    "Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
    Sergeant Major Jackrum 10th Light Foot Infantery Regiment "Inns-and-Out"

  8. #8
    Ranting madman of the .org Senior Member Fly Shoot Champion, Helicopter Champion, Pedestrian Killer Champion, Sharpshooter Champion, NFS Underground Champion Rhyfelwyr's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Location
    In a hopeless place with no future
    Posts
    8,646

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    So wouldn't it be more accurate to say that inequality is a necessary evil, as opposed to something good in and of itself?
    At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.

  9. #9
    Member Megas Methuselah's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Prairie Grasslands
    Posts
    5,040

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    So wouldn't it be more accurate to say that inequality is a necessary evil, as opposed to something good in and of itself?
    Inequality, based solely on the ideal that growth and initiative should be rewarded, is only a necessary evil if the the growth and progress of society is the objective.

    Of course, life isn't always so perfect, right? As Brenus said, the short, ugly, black women have it hard. Especially when they are lesbians.

  10. #10
    has a Senior Member HoreTore's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    Norway
    Posts
    12,014

    Default Re: Inequality is good!

    Sadly, there wasn't as much help to get from you guys as I thought....
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO