World Views

Betwixt and between New York City and Seattle, the former sites of Skid Rows are quickly becoming occupied by luxury homebuyers and high-end office buildings. Even though the poor have been forced out, they have not gone away. Skid Row has metastasized everywhere. There are more homeless than ever, but they have splintered off into small clusters. They live in the most harsh and frightful way: tucked under blankets, tarps and sleeping bags, in between alleys and in the empty spaces of retail parking lots, loading docks, storefronts, and on the greenbelts along side freeways. This Holiday Season please give to the shelter or mission in your neighborhood.

Social fairness is paradoxical in nature, because fairness and unfairness are logically entangled with each other at both the societal level and individual level. This metaphysical nature of fairness has been utterly ignored by scholars since ancient times, although from time to time we might hear different writers mention the term of fairness paradox in the context of various specific issues that would signify the notion of social fairness.