PICTURE AT AN EXIBITION !!!

THIS year's election debacle between president Obama and GOP's Romney is just about to start, at least officially.....

SOME of the most hard -fought political arguments of our times, take place this year between two rival camps. The laissez fair camp and the fairness camp. Media is calling it "the middle class or the ninety nine % against the one % rich."

Leading the laissez fair camp are free market libertarians who believe that justice consists in upholding and respecting the voluntary choices made by consenting adults, and legislation to oblige. The fairness camp contains theorists of a more egalitarian tendencies. In their view, justice requires policies that reform and restore social and economic disadvantages and disparities, and give everyone a fair or at least better chances at success.

Often the disagreements are among partisans or rival advocates in the public realm. Sometimes the disagreements are within us as individuals.

Can we reason our way from the judgments we make about concrete situations to the principles of justice we believe should apply in all situations?? That's what moral reasoning consists in.

Disagreements about right or wrong, justice and injustice are part of life in democratic societies, some believe fairness requires taxing the rich to help the poor, and help preserve social benefits, while others believe it is unfair to tax away money people have earned through their own efforts, no matter how they did it as long as it's legal. Elections are won and lost on these disagreements and premises.

What we take to be public debate about justice and rights would be nothing more than a reflection of our moral convictions, and as much as we might be tempted to think that our moral convictions are fixed once and for all, by upbringing, faith or philosophical maturity, sometimes, an argument can change our minds.

WE must rise above the prejudices and routines of everyday life, to grasp the real meaning of justice and fair life for most. Elections this year are going to show us what we really think and who we really are.




Thanks to all for your time and salamat.