Status Updates From The Foundations of Morality

Their attitude is summed up in the famous ironical jibe by Anatole France at “the majestic equality of the law that forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” But neither Anatole France nor any of those who take this ad hoc view have ever bothered to say what rules or guides, apart from their own immediate feelings, they would apply in place of equality be.