POJMAN Pojman argues that we should strive to pattern a world in which “the virtuous are paid and the vicious punished in percentage to their relative deserts.”

Pojman argues that we should strive to form a world in which “the virtuous are rewarded and the vicious punished in proportion to their relative deserts.”

Pojman argues that we should strive to pattern a world in which "the virtuous are rewarded and the vicious are penalized in percentage to their relation deserts.”

Desert is certain thing that is deserved. A “three-place relation”, desert has three elements: the subject (the individual who pledged an act), an object (reward, applaud, compensation) and a cornerstone (effort, assistance, lesson virtue) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

For Pojman, dessert, being a subcategory of merit, pertains to voluntary action. Desert then constitutes the desirability of a person's conclusions and activities and is inherent in lesson responsibility. It is just but equitable that larger effort, more assistance or more virtuous dwelling warrant larger reward. It is just but equitable that an individual who pledged robbery with killing will be more harshly penalized than somebody who pledged straightforward theft. Merit is a broader notion, the genus of which desert is the species. Throughout annals, we could glimpse how humankind, in every communal or heritage realm, had invoked fairness founded on desert and merit. (Pojman, “Justice and dessert” 99-100).

Rewarding those who manage well to us and penalizing those who incorrect us are spontaneous responses and thus contemplate human nature. As Pojman elaborates, these sense of thankfulness for persons who manage charitable work and the “resentful outrage” for those who manage wicked things are vicarious sentiments that could be sensed even when the doers are not in our direct around (102). I manage know-how these feelings. I get exhilarated by the heroic actions of young children in ...