"The Socialists say, since the law organizes justice, why should it not organize labor, instruction, and religion? Why? Because it could not organize labor, instruction, and religion, without disorganizing justice." -- Frédéric Bastiat Social termssocial market – a free market with regulation to support the general well being of society, even at the expense of profit eg. banning the sale of child porn
social justice – that idea that someone should be equal under society in the same way they are equal under the law. ie, they should have the same access to public services (schools, health, transport), and not have their life decided by anything other than their own actions and abilities.social security – what yanks call National Insurance.
social studies – the academic discipline concerned with the behaviour of humans in large groups, as opposed to psycology which is small groups/individuals.
social progress – the manner in which human society has steadily raised the average quality of life, and continues to do so.
social history – the study of history with specific emphasis on the life of a civilian member of the public, and their culture. Different from say, military history or political history.
social responsibility – the expectations that members of society have of each other with respect to their behaviour.
Demands for social justice take two different forms, which I will call welfarism and egalitarianism. According to welfarism, individuals have a right to certain necessities of life, including minimum levels of food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education, and so on. It is the responsibility of society to ensure that all members have access to these necessities. But a laissez-faire capitalist system does not guarantee them to everyone. Thus, argue the welfarists, capitalism fails to satisfy its moral responsibility and so must be modified through state action to provide such goods to people who cannot obtain them by their own efforts.
According to egalitarianism, the wealth produced by a society must be distributed fairly. It is unjust for some people to earn fifteen, or fifty, or a hundred times as much income as others.
One LinersPublic servants or state servants.Public required to give govt info, but public has no access to info. What's wrong with the welfare state.
Socialism
Socialist view
Social justice questions"If you do wrong against me, I am entitled to redress from you.(Aristotle) But when it comes to natural endowments of birth, there is no wrong doing. So it is unclear who the disadvantaged individuals have a claim against." -- Richard Epstein
Class: There is no such thing as class war, just a division between those who take their responsibilities seriously and those who don't
Socialists confusion" A Confusion of Terms Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds Government and society. And so, every time we object to a thing being done by Government, it concludes that we object to its being done at all.We disapprove of education by the State then we are against education altogether.
We object to a State religion then we would have no religion at all.
We object to an equality which is brought about by the State then we are against equality.
They might as well accuse us of wishing men not to eat, because we object to the cultivation of corn by the State."
-- Frédéric Bastiat “ We are encouraged to believe that any improvements which have taken place in our lives are a result of big government and more regulations. ” -- Vernon Coleman Quote 833 “ There are at least three fundamental problems associated with this position. The first is that there is no single and salient answer to what everyone is supposed to have. Almost everyone who advocates for social justice has either a different view of this or—more commonly in my experience—no firm view they are willing to articulate. For example, try asking someone who says that “the rich” are not paying their “fair share” of taxes, “OK, what is the ‘fair share?’” You will either get a blank look or a single-word answer: “more.” Whatever the “well-off” are now paying, they should be paying more. Whatever the less well-off have, they should have more. How much more? Not saying. Just more.” -- Randy Barnett
Quote 933 “ Too often would-be socialists want to compare capitalism in practice with some idea they have of what a socialist utopia might be like. The truth is that socialism was tried in many countries in different forms and had a deplorable record in all of them. It was characterized by suffering, shortages and the suppression of human freedom. In most cases it was accompanied by mass murder.” -- Masden Pirie
Criticism from socialistsAnswer to being brainwashed capitalist, is to say "I would expect to hear that from a brainwashed statist."
ReferencesLinksLink504Star Trek and socialism
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Link506Grades as a metaphor
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