Great Throughts Treasury

"Would my thus impeding the other suitor's winning the hand of fair lady justify taking some resources from others to pay for cosmetic surgery for him and special intellectual training? (I here take for granted the impermissibility of worsening the situation of the person with better opportunities, e.g., by disfiguring him or injecting him with drugs). No such consequences follow. (Against whom would the rejected suitor have a legitimate complaint? Against what?)"

"Would it also support the kidnapping of persons living in a place without compulsory social provision, who could be forced to make a contribution to the needy in your community?"

"You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied."