Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food.
Jill LeporeTags: wealth society environment government poverty business taxes general-welfare disasters property benefits emergencies common-defense domestic-tranquility
Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: religion atheism public property destroying mudering-civilians torturing-innocents
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
Bill MaherTags: women history religion marriage bible inequality infidelity adultery objectification old-testament personhood property objectification-of-women
That which is worth telling is not worth having.
Raheel FarooqTags: knowledge philosophy spirituality conversation talk property mundane-life
Central to Möser's view of the human world was "honor," a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion of dignity would be for the more individualistic society that succeeded it. In Möser's view, a person acquired his identity from his place in the institutional structure of society, a society in which economic, social, and political institutions were not distinguished from one another. His status (as a guildsman, noble landowner, serf, or independent peasant cottager) determined not only how he earned his living, but his sense of who he was, of what his duties and obligations were, of those to whom he ought to defer and those who ought to defer to him. (In the language of modern sociology, Möser's society was one in which almost all of the individual's roles derived from a single status.) Who one was was largely a continuation of what one's forebears had been. For Möser the real self was the socially encumbered self, the self based on status, on historical and regional particularity, and on property. It was a self whose prime virtue was honor. Status and the honor that attached to it were inherited, although they could be lost if one failed to live up to the duties of one's rank.
Jerry Z. MullerTags: honor status property corporatist-society
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