re: Should we copy the Japanese school lunch program? (Yes, obviously we should)

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I feel like this applies to capitalism. We accept it because we haven't dreamt up a better system yet.

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Be careful to get too tied into Rawls. His ideas were ridiculously conflicted and impossible to apply.

E.g., Rawls held that a system is only fair if everyone has genuinely equal opportunity, not just formal equality. Were life structured that way, I'd have played defensive back at LSU. Unfortunately, I lacked the size and speed (the genuinely equal opportunity) to do so. In fact, sans identical twins, no humans enjoy genuinely equal opportunity. So any system is inherently unfair in Rawlsian terms.

E.g., Rawls also claimed to reject state socialism as too coercive and harmful to liberty. Yet, in the next breath, he contended that economic inequalities be "allowed" only if they benefit the least advantaged (“the difference principle”). Autocratic socialism is a requisite for such allowance.

It is the kind of theoretic gobbledygook, which could only be impressive within university chambers as it has zero applicable basis.