Whining As A Political Strategy

SEE HERE "It's just not fair" and then the two year old falls on the ground and wails and flails and pounds his hands on the ground and turns quite red in the process.  It works a lot of the time since more mature people tend to find it uncomfortable watching a little person in such a state.  But really mature people ignore him or her while still making sure they don't hurt themselves.  Unfortunately politicians have discovered that they can trigger this behavior or its analog at least in otherwise apparently mature individuals by using the loaded word "fairness." 

It's just not fair that some people make more money than others.  Really!  Now that kind of thinking in outrageously stupid.  But it is emotionally appealing.  I can blame those other more successful people for my lack of success.  Somehow it is all unfair so we'll spread the unfairness around by taking what they have earned and giving it to the losers in this economic competition.  Then everything can be unfair and the society actually collapses.  Society is not built on income redistribution, but on rectitude.  When rectitude fails an it does when arbitrary standards of fairness are advanced than the society declines.