Re:The rise of the indelibly-illustrated everyman
by thom on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:43PM
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Then I very much hope they do indeed get what they deserve.
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Re:The rise of the indelibly-illustrated everyman
by badpun on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:55PM
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A world where everybody gets what they deserve is a just world - is that so bad?
Re:The rise of the indelibly-illustrated everyman
by InitialLastName on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:16PM
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I'd say that depends very much on who decides who deserves what.
Justice is inherently malleable and subjective. It's a thing we humans (as a society) decide to do to one another. As far as I can tell, it tends to lag the scales we're operating at.
Re:The rise of the indelibly-illustrated everyman
by badpun on Saturday July 27, 2019 @03:47AM
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I'm assuming it would happen automatically - i.e. people would be judged by all-knowing and impartial external parties (angels, aliens etc.) - otherwise of course it cannot happen, i.e. of course people alone can never implement true justice.
As for defining what is just - this is obviously a huge subject studied by philosophers - but I'm assuming that, if we had these all-knowing judges, they could just assess (by scanning thoughts of people) how hard everybody is trying to do good to others. And this way, we would be living in a just world. To repeat my question - would that be so bad?
Re:The rise of the indelibly-illustrated everyman
by hprotagonist on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:35PM
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Yes.