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...Dartboard isn’t one to wantonly criticize her native state—it takes enough from everyone else without her having to pipe up all too often. But every now and again, her compatriots down in Texas do something so entirely inane and reprehensible that she can either get angry, or poke fun. Usually, it’s a bit of both. So when she heard that a group of disgruntled parents were disbanding Girl Scout troops (and boycotting their cookies) in Crawford, Texas—yes, home to President Bush’s beloved ranch?...
That’s right. This “analogy” is no analogy at all. It is a real, shocking and bitterly ironic incident that took place in Leverett Dining Hall the other day. Dartboard himself took his place in line that fateful evening alongside that hungry crowd, his tummy rumbling, his eyes entranced by the site of that lone slice of pizza, as golden and greasy as a Tuscan afternoon. How fortunate I am, Dartboard thought to himself, to be able to enjoy the simple pleasure of a hot slice of pizza. But just then Dartboard watched...
...Dartboard was not asking for much. How grateful Dartboard would have been if Palmer had deigned to share with Dartboard even the crust of the pizza, or a single pepperoni. But apparently Palmer did not realize that the slice of pizza he would soon be wantonly devouring was completely nonrenewable. Nor, it seems, was he aware that his daily choices affect others all over the planet, and most importantly, Dartboard...
Palmer’s myopic focus on satiating his own greed is shocking, especially while tens of students—or at least five of us, counting Dartboard—were deprived of pizza. What, Dartboard asks, of distributive justice? What of equality? What of the intersection of justice and equality, namely equity, in which the concept of justice is embedded in the ideal of equality? (Or perhaps it is the other way around?) Palmer may indeed have been “first” in line, but that does not justify his personal choice to preempt Dartboard from getting...
...tired masses who are already forced to take on a fifth class or a third extracurricular in order to make ends meet, who toil long past daylight to produce the response papers demanded by people like Palmer, who live on as little as four hours of sleep a day. Dartboard is not asking for peace and justice, Brian Palmer. Just pizza justice...