Equity and Chocolate Cake (Re: Socialists and Equality)

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>>  Kelly, you have a weeks' supply of Viagra!
>
>
>Well, hot diggety dog. Grrrls, even snitgrrrls, get wee boners with
>viagara! didn't ya know that. I could share with all my friends! Didn't
>suzie bright do a piece on taking viagara? I thought that was the rage for
>awhile, women scoring some in the black market.... Hmmm.

Hmm is right, what does suzie say, does it work for grrls? Maybe I should 
get some for my sweetie . . . . What do to ya think, Kells?


>>So, Dougster,  I hope you can see that even equal slices of cake
>(equality)
>can and is inevitably also about perception since it depends on _what_ is
>being distributed, _to whom_ it is being  distributed, and the boundaries
>drawn around the good and its relation to other goods.
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>

Michael Walzer, who is great in theory and lousy in practice, is very good 
on this in Spheres of Justice, with hsi notion of "complex equality."

jks

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