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Good piece Joe and one that needs to be incorporated into the culture war in the form of a rational debate between technocratic fairness (equality of outcome) and democratic fairness (equality of opportunity).
Hi Joe, did you have a bad night?! Seems all a bit cynical for you and Radix. Are we to desert all human aspirations where we are likely to have different views as to what the precisely mean? Democracy? Sustainable Development? Kindness?…..?
It is not really a legitimate logical leap to go from this concept is disputed to this concept is subjective. Actually we hardly dispute things that are really subjective. Why bother?! Have you come across heated arguments as to whether marmite tastes good or not? Any treatises?!
I have to say I encouraged as sense of justice in my children. Which is maybe why the are not pursuing a career in the City and won’t ever be particularly rich! We may also disagree about what exploitation is but that doesn’t make it a subjective concept either!
Lets not desert aspiration and just accept what is.
cheers
Henry
Henry, a philosophy professor’s favourite lesson is to bring in some cakes, divide the class into groups, give each one a cake and ask them to divide the cake ‘fairly’. Every group ends up dividing the cake in different ways.
We all have a sense of fairness. The danger comes when we start to believe that our own perception of what is fair should be universal. It isn’t. But believing it is is what drives bigotry, division and an inability to listen to others’ perspectives.
You mention ‘democracy’ – what is a fair interpretation of democracy and how it should work has been a contested idea for centuries and will remain so. The challenge is to accept constant contestation of such concepts as a good thing rather than trying to impose one particular perspective. That is the route to aspiration – to getting better. Not shutting down discussion because some people believe they ha ve ‘the answer’ to what is fair and what is not.