I think it’s partly cause people don’t want to take what’s rightfully theirs.
if you have 10 apples and I have 1, I wouldn’t want to take one from you simply cause you have more. if, however, I knew you’d nefariously gotten 5 apples by forcibly taking them from others, then that would be a different story
It’s more like you have a million apples, and there’s a whole town with 1 apple each who’re starving. It doesn’t matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don’t need them and the fact that you’re hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision.
I think it’s partly cause people don’t want to take what’s rightfully theirs.
if you have 10 apples and I have 1, I wouldn’t want to take one from you simply cause you have more. if, however, I knew you’d nefariously gotten 5 apples by forcibly taking them from others, then that would be a different story
It’s more like you have a million apples, and there’s a whole town with 1 apple each who’re starving. It doesn’t matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don’t need them and the fact that you’re hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision.
A difference in moral philosophy. The ability to help, absent some other relationship, does not create the obligation to help.