tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post4098637017887949040..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Eat the RichHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-50091693067438143222007-06-11T00:32:00.000-04:002007-06-11T00:32:00.000-04:00It's Creeping Rawlsianism---John Rawls, that is.It...It's Creeping Rawlsianism---John Rawls, that is.<BR/><BR/>It holds that a system is only moral if the worst off are as well off as they would be under any other system.<BR/><BR/>Sounds good on first blush.<BR/><BR/>But since Rawlsianism doesn't get hung up on quaint concepts like "virtue" or "natural law," it holds that what is <I>good</I> is what we all (mostly) agree is good. <BR/><BR/>Now, it appears that the lion's share of poverty in American society <A HREF="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg1713.cfm" REL="nofollow">stems from certain behavior patterns</A>. Pathologies, if you will.<BR/><BR/>But if we consider as <I>good</I> in their own right and for their own sake fornication and the resulting procreation, along with self-medication to get you through the rest of the night as <I>good</I>, then American society falls far short of Rawls' quite reasonable prescription for "social justice."<BR/><BR/>How unfair. Unjust. Abusive, even. Tyrannical.<BR/><BR/>Heinous. Toejam. America sucks.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com