Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 88 of David Schmidtz’s chapter “But Is It Just?” in David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin’s wonderful 1998 book, Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility: For and Against:

To be sure, what people care about is sensitive to social context, and we should applaud institutions that encourage people to care for each other. But telling people that they are required to tend someone else’s garden rather than their own does not encourage people to care for each other. It does the opposite. It encourages spite.