I have a really hard time figuring out what exactly people deserve.
To be even more precise, yet unfortunately more abstract, I guess I don’t even know what it means to “deserve” something. According to whom or what? I think we derive what it is we think we deserve from what others tell us. Okay, that just sounds convoluted. It’s this: Someone or some group gave us law, for instance; they set up the rules of the game, brought us out of our theoretical state of nature. And, accordingly, if the law says I deserve X, then I deserve X. No questions asked.
far from, but right at, home 