{"id":76179,"date":"2012-06-18T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76179"},"modified":"2012-06-18T05:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:21:18","slug":"more-social-justice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76179","title":{"rendered":"More &#8216;Social Justice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicsandprosperity.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/30\/more-social-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And who should be in charge of measuring welfare, summing it, and weighing the gains and losses in order to arrive at a socially \u201cjust\u201d distribution of income, whatever that is? Well, we know the answer to that question: It has to be the state \u2014 or more accurately \u2014 elected officials and bureaucrats: people not known for their perspicacity, objectivity, and even-handedness.<\/p>\n<p>In the alternative, a just society could be one where individuals engage in voluntary, cooperative exchanges of goods and services for their mutual betterment, and from the fruits of which they voluntarily aid those whom they know to be in need of aid.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is inevitably attacked as \u201cunjust.\u201d But it should be noted that such attacks come from individuals (philosophers, politicians, do-gooders, etc.) who would impose their own views of \u201csocial justice\u201d on everyone. How any such imposition can be considered more \u201cjust\u201d than a regime of voluntary, cooperative, mutually beneficial behavior is beyond me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. And who should be in charge of measuring welfare, summing it, and weighing the gains and losses in order to arrive at a socially \u201cjust\u201d distribution of income, whatever that is? Well, we know the answer to that question: It has to be the state \u2014 or more accurately \u2014 elected officials and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76181,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76179\/revisions\/76181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}