Peach Justice

I bit into a peach today and was delighted that it was both sweet and juicy. Of course, we have all experienced the bad peach. Therefore, I suggest we might all agree on one thing: not all peaches are created equal.

If a farmer tends to his crop and follows every good practice practicable, this farmer has a greater likelihood of reaping a good harvest. Should government intervene and declare that all farmers must be equally compensated and set the price of a peach, then the good farmer has little incentive to take so much care to produce the perfect peach. Still, no matter how careful she is, the farmer may befall all manner of calamities that will devalue her crop. She may also find that a risky innovation produces a faulty peach. But risking is what we do every day to produce value in an unknown future.

Why does my peach analogy matter?

Socialism proclaims that the value of all peaches are equal and that it is in fact our moral imperative to accept this premise. Socialism requires that you become "morally and intellectually enlightened" and treat all peaches equally. If you do not, you are a peach snob. To believe in the better peach, you are morally repulsive.

Perhaps you have been told the poor peach's story and are willing to pay equally for the grainy peach as if it were a fair peach. Your heart weeps for the poor and battered peach. And we will call this peach justice. Alas, you now find that you have a cause - to ensure that all peaches are valued equally.

But some in your household disagree. What then? You must find ways to ensure that no one speaks the truth about the imperfect peaches, lest this lead to pitching peaches. Coercion may even be necessary in the end. In order to achieve our peach justice, we must stop the practice of judging the true value of individual peaches entirely. Only this will enable the rise of all peaches. Every peach gets a pass for simply being a peach. Farmers that believe in the better peach are ridiculed and told that believing they are superior and can produce the better peach is egotistical, self-aggrandizing and they are narcissistic, greedy and perhaps even evil.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that one variety of peaches is superior, but rather that not all peaches in the basket are equal. In the end, what we have done is treat all peaches unequally. We must value the lesser more highly in order for it to reach the same value. And, the fair peach is ignored, forbidden perhaps and its value destroyed. When really, we could have used the less fair peach to more fruitful purposes such as a peach cobbler or even a fruit smoothie.

I say, here here to judging a peach by its fruitiness and letting the free market demand perfect peaches, and with this we will truly bring about peach justice.