Inherent Injustice
Oddly a propos to last week's discussion, my weekend hobby, and this morning's meme:
"What may have been most defeating to Smith about politics was the conundrum of justice and injustic in even the most justifiable political systems. ...
"Justice is necessary for protecting property. But property is necessarily unjust -- "Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality." Smith wrote that we can dispense with law. "Where there is no property ... civil government is not so necessary." But then we will get the opposite of law (and property) in the lawless proprietorship of feudalism and Mao. So political systems must be established to preserve the injustice of property by administering justice."
~ O'Rourke (2007), pg. 155
"What may have been most defeating to Smith about politics was the conundrum of justice and injustic in even the most justifiable political systems. ...
"Justice is necessary for protecting property. But property is necessarily unjust -- "Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality." Smith wrote that we can dispense with law. "Where there is no property ... civil government is not so necessary." But then we will get the opposite of law (and property) in the lawless proprietorship of feudalism and Mao. So political systems must be established to preserve the injustice of property by administering justice."
~ O'Rourke (2007), pg. 155