Those I consider
my intimate friends understand that I have a well developed- possibly overdeveloped- sense of justice.
I don’t talk about it very much. I will certainly never discuss it here.
What I will talk about is fairness. Kids are now taught a different type of ‘Fairness” than I got when I was a kid, and it blows chunks. Five year olds all get “participation trophies” because its not ‘Fair” when one group wins because the other group has to lose.
bullshit.
What isn’t fair is that the kid with natural talent who loves a game and practices four hours a day is given the same recognition as the snot nosed shit who shows up for this game only and is given the same ‘Trophy”. Morons.
Liberals would have you believe that ‘Fairness” requires that everyone have the same free and easy access to everything (Housing, healthcare, whatever) as everyone else.
What isn’t fair is when people who work and act responsibly and drag their ass out of bed every day to go to work get to contribute to the people who do not. When people do for others out of Christian compassion and charity, that is an object lesson in human behavior. When people are forced to give of their earned income to provide for the ungrateful, that is merely theft.
There may come a time when people- like me- with an overdeveloped sense of justice- will seek to act on behalf of the people who are being stolen from in the name of ‘Fairness”.
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Justice = everyone gets what’s coming to him.
Thankfully I have avoided THAT sort of justice most of my life.
Touche….Now how will we know the others of our group when it comes time to act. That time is fast approaching.
The old grumps and cranks around here are starting to talk about tax revolts. The younger grumps and cranks are talking about sitting back, watching it all burn and screwing the hell out of the country for everything they can because everyone else is doing it.
I think the idea of fairness is going to take on new meaning soon. I also think the progressives will be shocked and horrified when things like social shame and personal pride come back into fashion…
Well said, as always, Og.
Wish I could properly quote it, but I read somewhere that the LAST thing most people want is to be on the receiving end of “True Fairness”. So when they whine about “Why Me!?”, they HATE it when they hear “Why NOT You?”
Social Justice = “We gonna give you what’s comin’ to you!”
There is no such thing as “fairness” beyond the 6th grade intellectual level, and that’s not being fair to some 6th graders.
For Les: Babylon Five; Marcus Cole: I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?’ So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
Careful what you say there brother.
Not that I think you are wrong.
Just that anything you say can and will be written down and used against you in the future.
I remember too well childhood, there at the edge of what was normal and what is accepted, being told to not talk about awards or achivements, as it would make the other kids “feel bad”. If I recall, those kids were all home playing “frogger” while I was taking college classes in the evenings and summers when I was still in a training bra.
Unfortunately, despite what so many of us believe, what is administered is all about the masses feeling “good” and not about achievement. A few more generations of that, we will all be back, living in caves.
My daughters all know two lessons well enough to quote them to me when I tease them that I want to come to college with them and be roommates. “Life isn’t fair.” “You don’t always get what you want”. Next lesson:
“Justice is getting what you deserve; mercy is NOT getting what you deserve; grace is getting what you DON’T deserve.” We all want justice for the other guy, mercy and grace for ourselves. My opinion.