I think you're going a bit too hard on the truisms now.

There are forms of prosperity that are not part of a zero sum, and instead increase the total sum instead. Primarily technical innovations, but even social structures can be more efficient than others and reduce lost or wasted resources. Until we build a Dyson sphere or something there are myriad ways in which energy is being used ineffectively, and not everything that learns to grow faster has to be a cancer.

And sure life isn't fair, the universe is seemingly indifferent to our existence, but I'm talking about people. They can be fairminded, or they can be decidedly not. And as for the subjectivity, if the instinctive feel of what is and isn't fair is a biological predisposition, then there will almost certainly be others who share the same or close enough to be compatible feelings. Those are your people. As a people with a shared vision of fairness it is in your interest to advance your collective position over any other subjective position to the point that your desires, like changes to felony gun laws, are implicitly understood and desired by those running the state, rather than having to try and force the hand of leaders who don't share your values. The benefits of a shared, implicit moral framework are huge, and if your sense of fairness includes being able to trust even felons with a gun post-punishment, absolutely vital to living in a society you feel is fair.

I think you're going a bit too hard on the truisms now.

There are forms of prosperity that are not part of a zero sum, and instead increase the total sum instead. Primarily technical innovations, but even social structures can be more efficient than others and reduce lost or wasted resources. Until we build a Dyson sphere or something there are myriad ways in which energy is being used ineffectively, and not everything that learns to grow faster has to be a cancer.

And sure life isn't fair, the universe is seemingly indifferent to our existence, but I'm talking about people. They can be fairminded, or they can be decidedly not. And as for the subjectivity, if the instinctive feel of what is and isn't fair is a biological predisposition, then there will almost certainly be others who share the same or close enough to be compatible feelings. Those are your people. As a people with a shared vision of fairness it is in your interest to advance your collective position to the point that your desires, like changes to felony gun laws, are implicitly understood and desired by those running the state, rather than having to try and force the hand of leaders who don't share your values.