> Nature is unfair.
That is no argument against striving for an as fair society as possible.
That is no argument against striving for an as fair society as possible.
The problem with this line of thought is that it's never ending if you try to "fix things" for everyone. Because there's limited resources and there are choices you have to take anyway and the solutions you will implement will never end up being fair for everyone, while it will prove to be a burden for society as a whole.
At some point, we as a society have to argue with the American Ideology of "free markets for ever, for everyone, for everything."
It simply does not bode well for our species in terms of morality, survival or many other metrics to have people dying of thirst while another man washes his collection of Maybachs.
Some inequality is inevitable. Too much inequality is a disaster.