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Have you ever caught yourself hating someone who is extremely rich?
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"With great power comes great responsibility." "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” Voltaire, 1694 - 1778 |
I have begun suspecting that hatred towards those with power actually makes sense. It is not envy that drives us to dislike the haves that we have not. Envy and hate are very different emotions. Hatred is a form of disagreement, while envy is only a personal wish of having what we do not have.
It is our feeling that people with power do not take responsibility for their influence. When you see a person, so poor as to hunger for old bread, and look aside only to see another person, so rich as to throw away fresh bread; that is when we feel anger and hatred toward the rich, and we realize that justice is a truth from within; regardless of philosophical debate.
I do not intend to imply that those who are more able should obey those who are less so! That would be as ridiculous as if it were the opposite.
The importance of this entire realization is that wealthy people do, indeed, have a responsibility towards those who are, at the very least, poverty stricken. It is their responsibility to find ways to calm the anger of those less fortunate, or they will risk justifying that hatred.
I do not believe in socialism. No person should command another to assist others. Help must be a voluntary thing, to be what it truly represents; for it is not the lacking of another and their envy that must be solved; but, it is the anger and hurt that demands reparation.
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