Thought Experiment:
I look around and wonder, if there is any
reasonable argument for the redistribution of wealth in the pursuit of
some sort of ideal fairness in this life, what happens in an ideal world
or in the afterlife if there is one. Take physical attractiveness for
instance. Would we all look the same or at least possess the same
degree of attractiveness? Or would we possess a spiritual
attractiveness we developed in life? Would physical health be replaced
with varying degrees of spiritual health? And what about
athletic/physical prowess, creativity or especially, intelligence?
Would all those be spread out and evenly redistributed, or would there
still need to be ugliness to accentuate the beautiful? Would there be
the wild desert to accentuate the lush, groomed Eden? The hunchback to
set off the Adonis.
I guess I'm asking a couple of somewhat
separate questions: 1) What is fair, how is it determined and by who?
2) How do we judge spiritual qualities etc., when our hormones are
screaming "reproduce"?
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