Gospodarz etyczny, gospodarz roztropny. Czy wolno okradać złodzieja?
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Two parallel problems come under close scrutiny in my paper. First of them concerns the question whether
victims of a (politically or economically) stronger thief are ethically entitled to steal their property in revenge?
I argue that this kind of theft could be seen as a hidden form of protection because the symbolic relation between
the first aggressor and his victim is extremely unequal. An ordinary man usually has no public means to oppose
corporation or political institution. He has then to decide whether he chooses ethical perfection, which would stop
him from doing anything; or he is ready, by himself, to inflict punishment on an (institutionalized) thief. The other
problem concerns the consequences of the acceptance of ‘the balancing strategy’. The case of modern state shows
how hidden fighting against a stronger thief brings about opposite results. On one hand, an unfair political institution is deprived of its rights. But, on the other hand, the insubordinate citizen, who plays the part of the only owner
of the criterion of fairness, destroys the rules of common life.
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