Agree or disagree?

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53. So, e.g., should everyone who wants to make the trip to the Moon

be sent, regardless of their qualifications?

I agree with Debs insofar as, right now, our society treats too many desirable things as if there's one pie that can only be divided so many ways, when in fact, if the proper reforms were made, the pie itself could grow so as to allow more people to enjoy it. I do believe, e.g., that everyone who wants a college education should have an opportunity to get the best one they're capable of attaining, with the costs borne by the state.

But there ARE some things that we can't at present grow more of or successfully scale up, no matter how we reformed our systems. In that case, I think a rational and reasonably humane argument can be made for allocating limited supplies of desirable things based on hopefully-mutually-agreed criteria, such as who actually wants or needs a particular limited good the most, who happens to have the particular talents or whatever that would enable them to make the best use of the limited good, etc.

I'm a fan of Debs, but the particular formulation in the O.P. strikes me as too simplistic.