Three Kids and a Scooter
What's true equality?
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If you've got a few minutes to think about a social justice issue, please consider the following classic dilemma:
Take three kids and a scooter. Anne says the scooter should be given to her because she's the only one who knows how to ride it. Bob says the scooter should be handed to him as he's so poor he has no other toys to play with. Carla says the scooter is hers because it's the fruit of her labor - she did the research, rounded up the materials, and built it by the sweat of her brow.
How do we decide between these three claims? They're all equally vehement. Are they all equally legitimate?
We at Scragged don't believe that there are three legitimate claims. We recognize only one: Carla's. The scooter belongs to Carla because she made it; it would equally be hers if she had bought it with her own money.
Our sense of pity and charity speak to the plights of the other two and would lead us to recommend to Carla to put the scooter to the best possible use, but we can't lend the other two claims any sort of inherent legitimacy. We thought we'd throw this issue out to you for your comments.
We'd particularly like to understand more about the type of thinking that lends some people to believe that the other two claims on the scooter are valid in any sense at all, or should be enforceable somehow.
Our current political climate would appear to say, "Force Carla to make two more scooters and make Anne teach them all how to ride." Is that representative of current thinking, or would the politically correct notion be to take the scooter from Carla and give it to one of the others? If so, which one? And who decides?
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| Too bad you can't just share the scooter - with Audrey Hepburn. If only politics were like the movies! |
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What does Chinese history have to teach America that Joe Biden doesn't know?
Exactly.
Is she willing to go to prison for the sanctity of her life?
I'm sure that you would be the first to oppose slavery, but in agreeing with that statement, you've advocated slavery. Forcing Carla and Anne to do something is slavery by a different name, but it's still slavery.
Liberty requires us to have agency over our own lives and property (that which obtain through our own efforts without violating others' rights to the same).
I meant that that was exactly what the current political climate is inclined towards.
Carla should sue for criminal damages and win criminal compensation that will pay for the scooter 10 fold.
Bob would get probation and the root of his problem will be identified: The State will give him a scooter, riding lessons, 3 squares a day, therapy, some days out with his family at a resort of their own choosing.
Everyone is content and in profit.
Thats how you make everyone happy. That is Capitalism.
Take the scooter for instance. Who is it that is proposing taking a scooter from anyone? If the answer is nobody, then what is the scooter supposed to represent? Our wages? Then this article is another one if your many tirades (in disguise) against welfare. What does knowing how to drive the scooter represent? Knowing how to use money?? What does Carla making two more scooters represent, and what is the difference from just taking the first scooter she made?
I can't tell, are you advocating a tax rate of 0%, or just advocating eliminating all welfare?
And if you are honestly trying to find out the motivation of people who...think it's ok to take other people scooters...then why mix in backhanded insults to their way of thinking?
Thats how you make everyone happy. That is Capitalism."
The best approach to this is to take the scooter away from everyone, then punish Carla for creating another vehicle for producing toxic gasses.
Because these are all children, the parents should be punished because riding a scooter at such a young age, or at any time, could create a situation which could hurt or damage the children. Also, the scooter would be influencing childhood obesity because the children would be using a scooter to get back and forth between places that they could walk.
This here, in a perfect and progressive world, would reason enough to take the kids away and protect our mother the earth.
(Too bad I'm being sarcastic, I think I would make a good liberal!)
I think Carla should engaged Bob to be a employed then obviously he will also earn enough money to
buy scooter.
And the remain Anne" Both Bob and Carla need to give money to Anne as a Teacher.
Only after that they all will be happy