Celebrating the Justice of the Universe

We have compassion for everyone, but also feeling that those who are badly off must have done something to, to deserve it. It's been noted that some of the generous welfare states of Europe have at least historically occurred in countries that are ethically more homogeneous than the United States. And this is not, there is some elasticity into what we cognitively categorize as our group. One of the greatest sheathments of any kind of nation building is to instill a feeling well we're all Canadians or we're all Swiss or we’re all Iraqi.