diary / by Edward Mullany

People will object to this line of thought because it will sound to their ears unfair, or inequitable, as if nature in her distributions ever purported to be fair or equitable (except insofar as her indifference to us is total; in this regard she is entirely equitable). The mistake they will be making is that they will be projecting onto nature that which they perceive to be the role of society (wherein structural imbalances can be corrected, or brought into parity, by petition, entreaty, or mandate).