JKJ, would you mind expanding on that (leaving the author's position aside for the moment)?

I'm struggling to grasp your meaning in relation to "fairness", rather than as an expression of libertarianism.

CM

It's in response to the author's article, so I can't expand on it other than in relation to that.

He hasn't established that there's anything intrinsically "unfair" about the fact that some people have more property than others, which is just another way of saying, that human society exists. There might be; or there might not be. But nothing he has said shows that there is; nor that anything he proposes would be fairer even in terms of his own definition, which he hasn't given. The article talks of fairness as a political "principle"; but the author gives no criterion, other than his own arbitrary opinion, by which anyone could judge whether any given policy is getting closer to, or further away from, the achievement of that principle. Talk of equal respect doesn't answer, because if that entitles everyone to an equal share of what you produce taken under coercion, then it's not equal respect is it?

Craig I twice walked out of the Mooloolaba yacht club change rooms, after shaving off a few months passage making growth of facial hair, to run into the same friend, who pronounced each time that I "Looked 10 years younger without that beard".

The second time his wife was with him, who said, "yes, much better too". Nothing about good mind you, but better.

Haven't worn one since.

Again more references to Tony Abbott's, now abandoned, totally unfair PPL. Well that is the exact scheme Liberal or Labour gave to the Public Service. So which party did that and if so, why, as everyone says it is unfair for a non public servant to get.
Of course it begs the additional question why not save money by getting rid of the PS PPL too?
Does it apply to Politicians by the way?
Questions, questions? Any answers?

I'm still waiting for an explanation to justify the ruling in Brown v Board of Education. What was wrong with black and white schools each getting the same per capita in funding. It's not as though each school got funding equivalent to 15% whatever of how much all the individual school's parents earnt.