• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

    A system of fair rules does not always lead to fair outcomes, if the rules don’t accommodate the asymmetry in capacity, motivation, resources, etc.

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      1 month ago

      also, you cannot be tolerant to intolerant people. any system of beliefs like that is doomed. this is what is happening now.