: : : How come this:: : : "We are concerned about inequality precisely because it upsets us Emotionally to witness suffering. (and this trait is a biological given - though it may be, and has been, subverted)"
: SDF: I think I'm concerned with inequality not out of any Pavlovian reflex but rather out of the knowledge that everyone could have a BETTER SOCIETY if the "production lines of inequality" were halted once and for all.
bill:
Too simplistic. Everybody wants a "BETTER" anything. You have to show whyproduction lines of inequality should be halted. Are you going to appeal to "efficiency"?
SDF:
This knowledge is a cultural product.
bill:
All knowledge is a cultural product. So what?
SDF:
And what's more, I'm right.
bill:
And I'm Always right. (until proven otherwise - then I become right again)
: : : : Then there is the matter of 'creeping privilege'. These are concerns about those objective expressions of values (Me First) that are integral to the Capitalist System.
: SDF: Possessive individualism is culturally-determined too. What's more, I would argue that there are cultural variants upon capitalist systems... US capitalism, British capitalism, Japanese capitalism, etc.
bill:
Agreed
This "capitalism creates its own gravediggers" notion, though, appears to me to be completely unproven.
bill:
No. In the sense that "class war" and dialectics is not completely proven.
