From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 21:17:32 MDT
At 07:10 PM 6/6/02 -0500, Lee Crocker wrote:
>I want
>the power to mold galaxies to my whim
Uh-huh. (The pills are quite effective these days, and I hear they're not
even all that bitter.)
>--but I want to /earn/ it, not take it by force.
>"Need" and "deserve" are empty, meaningless concepts.
How can one make sense of the term `earn' unless `desert' is also part of
the package? I'm less sure about the, um, need for `need', but if you don't
*deserve* a certain recompense for your efforts (according to some agreed
calculus), how can you be said to have *earned* it? Isn't the difference of
desert just that between (a) holding someone up and stealing their money,
and (b) working to earn it by providing them with a service they seek from
you?
Damien Broderick
[I dunno. Really, I can't be bothered. I can't be bothe... ]
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