it is not fair that some children should have vastly less resources put into their education, or into their health care, or into their living conditions than others,

No it isn't fair, but there is no one in charge of making life fair, I am sorry to point out. If she had the funds, and chose to use them to put her son in what she saw as a better school, that what the hell business is it of anyone else's? Regardless of whether she was living up to expectations from the left or the right or the fore or the aft, she acted according to her best judgment and harmed no-one. Where's the beef? That she wasn't practicing pure Socialism? Surely someone has pointed out that pure socialism has never yet succeeded in use?

Here's the deal: people's inherent rights and freedoms may be equal, but you can bet your buns their levels of ability are not. When this is acknowledged it becomes magically incumbent on individuals to be as able as they possibly can, because it is only human ability that brings about decent survival for the individual and the family and the community. That's where all value comes from.

And it is only the able who can then exercise compassion in offering a hand to the less able, out of charity. Otherwise, there is no hand to offer!

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