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To: epicure who wrote (82069)6/19/2000 9:53:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
I agree that it is logical to try for fairness now. For whatever it is worth, Christ also wanted us to try for fairness now. His teachings were very consistent - if someone asks you for a cloak, give him your coat. If someone asks you to walk a mile with him, walk with him two. What you do for the least of these, you do for me.

The only teaching that could be construed as asking people to be satisfied with suffering here on earth, was the Sermon on the Mount, where he said, Blessed are the poor, the weak, the meek. Otherwise, he wanted to heal the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry.

He did not promise pie in the sky.



To: epicure who wrote (82069)6/19/2000 10:05:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 108807
 
But so far nobody here has defined fairness in a useful way. How do we know how to achieve it or what governments have it in the greatest degree if we don't know what it is?