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{{a|devil|{{image|World peace|png|It’s a battle.}}}}The problem with theories of justice is they don’t bear close examination. Collective ones run into the problem “who gets to decide, and what’s to stop ''them'' tilting the scales, and what of people who legitimately | {{a|devil|{{image|World peace|png|It’s a battle.}}}}The problem with theories of justice is they don’t bear close examination. | ||
Collective ones run into the problem “who gets to decide, and what’s to stop ''them'' tilting the scales, and what of people who legitimately disagree?” | |||
Individualistic ones are fine until we have to interact with each other — over the course of human history, we’ve tended to do that a lot — whereupon they all run into the same basic conundrum: what to do when ''my'' expression of personal freedom interferes with ''yours''? | |||
These lead to strands of philosophy one may characterise as basically ''Hobbesian'' (pessimistic) or ''[[Adam Smith|Smithian]]'' (optimistic) in grappling with the proposition that there are finite resources, unlimited demands on them, but in any case when gathered together humans are a fundamentally argumentative bunch, and this is a necessary condition of society (Hobbes) and a desirable one (Smith). | These lead to strands of philosophy one may characterise as basically ''Hobbesian'' (pessimistic) or ''[[Adam Smith|Smithian]]'' (optimistic) in grappling with the proposition that there are finite resources, unlimited demands on them, but in any case when gathered together humans are a fundamentally argumentative bunch, and this is a necessary condition of society (Hobbes) and a desirable one (Smith). | ||
It used to be only those contesting beauty pageants who aspired to | It used to be only those contesting beauty pageants who aspired to end conflict and lube blissed out in peace, love and happiness: nowadays it seems to include a large part of the educated metropolitan elite — at least, in their in unguarded moments, when they haven’t been thinking too hard about it. | ||
Influencers wring their hands and ask, “What is the biggest impediment to world peace? How can we reach this state? What must we change? | Influencers wring their hands and ask, “What is the biggest impediment to world peace? How can we reach this state? What must we change? | ||