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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (71485)	8/4/2003 4:20:54 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually, equality is not fair, although it is often a proxy for fairness. For example, why shouldn't a vendor sell something for less to a working person, and more to a rich person, through separate negotiation? Taken as a proportion of income, the rich person is still paying a fraction of what the poor person is, even though the dollar amount may be greater. Similarly, a parking fine for me is a lot less to me than it was 20 years ago, and therefore is less of a penalty and disincentive. People go to college, and end up with honors or not, but no one asks if they had to work during the school year, or had tutors for difficult subjects, or were sick for much of one semester, or whatever else might effect performance, they just look at grades. But what the heck, in many cases equality will do as a rough measure........

To: one_less who wrote (71485)	8/4/2003 4:28:14 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, you probably mentioned that the world is not fair. Even if you hadn't, I already knew that. It's one thing, though, when the marketplace of life throws a lemon at you. It's quite another when a democracy formed on the premise of equality in the pursuit of happiness doles out our collective goodies unfairly, and from the vantage point of an audacious high moral horse, to boot. BTW, I heard the squirrel this morning still trying to get through my pile of bricks, so I dropped some red pepper down among the bricks. He got quiet awfully quick. A new international grocery store opened last week right across from my Japanese restaurant. The place is jammed so you can hardly move through it. It's like being in a marketplace in some third world country. Smells like it, too. But boy do they have some interesting stuff. Yes, I'm getting to the point. I looked for cayenne pepper there and couldn't find any. My problem turned out to be that I was looking for a little jar. They sell that stuff in one pound bags and up. I bought a pound for just over two bucks. Only used about a third of a cup on the squirrel so far. They also had some eel already prepared just like the Japanese restaurant. All I had to do was microwave it. Yummy. They had blueberries for a buck, and I've been gorging on them. That's what inspired the blueberry example I gave Chris. Life may not always be fair, but it is definitely sweet.