too rich?

[jonb]

As I said the inequality pointed to in the Oxfam report provokes me, I have thoughts of removing some of that excess.

In other posts I have made reference to how I feel that the inequality there is, has become embedded, and there are those who are seemingly not part of the market, but are external to it with the ability to control the market the rest of us are in.

Now I heard it mentioned on QI(Steven Fry, BBC programme) a while back that there is in France a law that makes it illegal to stand back and not assist a person in mortal danger, and I like the contributors to that programme would not welcome such a law. Because among other things it seems to take away any good motives from the person providing aid.

So I find myself in a quandary, I can see people letting others suffer greatly when it is well within their power to help, and that does build up resentment within me towards them, but I would not like the force I feel that might be imposed on them to be imposed on me. But I also recognise that the situation (if not in some unspecified way rectified) has potential to create enough dissension that allied with other possible factors could bring about a system with laws like those in France at best, or a witch hunt of those deemed responsible like that of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

So how important is the right/ability not to give a shit about others. And If it is not where would it stop?