You may well be right for a lot of people, but I know quite a few otherwise rational people who fall for the fairness argument. They don’t understand the costs involved to impose that ‘fairness’.
Fairness, for no reason that I understand, is a very compelling argument for a lot of people. They don’t get that life isn’t fair, and that trying to modify reality to change that will cause more damage than they can understand.
Anyone who even uses the term “fairness” - let alone falling for the so-called argument is an imbecile. The very word is subjective, and is being used manipulately. Just like “nice” and “good” and a host of other words that can mean whatever anyone wants them to mean, which is, “what I say is fair, nice, good, how I define it.”
Those words, and that device, are especially pernicious because they are used to suppress dissent - because if you disagree with the person touting fairness, etc, you are ipso facto unfair, not nice, and bad.
This is kindergarten reasoning, and the fact that it can enter adult discourse is the symptom of the degeneration of our society.
Anyone who even uses the term “fairness” - let alone falling for the so-called argument is an imbecile. The very word is subjective, and is being used manipulately. Just like “nice” and “good” and a host of other words that can mean whatever anyone wants them to mean, which is, “what I say is fair, nice, good, how I define it.”
Those words, and that device, are especially pernicious because they are used to suppress dissent - because if you disagree with the person touting fairness, etc, you are ipso facto unfair, not nice, and bad.
This is kindergarten reasoning, and the fact that it can enter adult discourse is the symptom of the degeneration of our society.
Anyone who even uses the term “fairness” - let alone falling for the so-called argument is an imbecile. The very word is subjective, and is being used manipulately. Just like “nice” and “good” and a host of other words that can mean whatever anyone wants them to mean, which is, “what I say is fair, nice, good, how I define it.”
Those words, and that device, are especially pernicious because they are used to suppress dissent - because if you disagree with the person touting fairness, etc, you are ipso facto unfair, not nice, and bad.
This is kindergarten reasoning, and the fact that it can enter adult discourse is the symptom of the degeneration of our society.