Capitalist Philosophers And Fundamentalist Protestants

[chezlaw]

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Isn't the problem with the 'deserve idea' the deserve idea? Iow, if you don't believe in a force that goes around handing out dollops of 'deserve credits', where does the idea of an objective 'deserve' grab a toe hold on reality.

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Like all ideas of this nature you have to ground it somewhere to give the word meaning but that doesn't mean it has no meaning.

I claim it is meaningful to say that someone who works hard as a cleaner all week deserves the money they get paid for it more than a mugger who beats them up and steals their wages. We can work out the details later.


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That you were forunate/lucky doesn't translate into deserving or not deserving, which is a totally different concept ???

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Isn't that DS's point. Those who think they are deserving when they just got lucky are mistaken. He feels nausea at people who try to rationalise that mistake just because it serves their self-interest.

chez