who keeps our brother?

I thought that Vietnam had one of those quasi commie governments like China does. I don’t think anybody has a real commie government anymore, maybe the Cubans, but they are awfully stubborn. A lot of people think that China is our enemy. I think you have referred to it that way once or twice.

I just meant that thing about some big corporation taking over Beaglesonia, as an example of how you can never be sure of your property, not as a practical thing. Just part of my ploy to prove that life isn’t fair. Big deal, doesn’t everybody know that anyway? Well it’s just that idea that THEY push that anybody can work hard and accomplish their dreams, which fails to mention that some folks will have to work really really hard, and some will just have to dip their silver ladle into the money river that flows by the estate.

The fight over the condo thing was a reflection on your Irish and English guy, where the only options are you can fight the guy and if you win you get the condo, and if you lose you don’t or, you can just not have the condo. Which option seems fairer to you, which would you prefer?

But all those laws and regulations which generally favor the rich have a place, at least there are rules that you can live peaceably by. I guess I appreciate the fact that I have the deed to my condo and if that angry Irish man comes knocking on my door all fisticuffs to get my condo, I can ring up the constabulary and have him locked away somewhere. I guess as a good liberal, I will feel a bit guilty, because except for some quirk of fate, it own this condo and he does not.

This is all over whether or not life is fair, but I think we all knew going in that it isn’t. In a narrower sense, we can talk about whether the current system is fair or not, and I think we can all agree that it is not. But then we get to is it so unfair that something should be done about it? I think here we have a difference of opinion. But despite all my talk of fighting I don’t want to overthrow it, I just want to make it more fair, through milquetoast things like more graduated income taxes and better healthcare and education for the poor, blah, blah, blah.

But in a broader sense, should we be doing anything at all? Christianity is mixed sometimes saying we should all aid the poor, and sometimes saying we will all get our reward or punishment in the next life, so why worry about what happens in this one? The commies are all for making things fair, but they have rather a checkered past. Ayn Rand says fuck the poor, they are all lazy and undeserving (or else they wouldn’t be poor), and the natural system rewards the best and so it should be.

Well how about that then, should we try to make the country more fair? What about the world? Do we owe anything to our fellow man?