How does "natural law" prevent "true" (as opposed to half-true or perhaps false) socialism? I am sure there is some sort of argument here about something, but I seem to be missing the point.

I meant "true" as representing wholly even distribution. With humans, as long as there is the closely held notion of "mine," even distributions are never possible. With stuff hitting the fan, there is always the opposite-- "not mine" and variable ducking strategies when stuff flys through the air in unpredictable directions.

The original paraphrase comes from a book The Complete Murphy's Law, which is entirely a tongue-in-cheek collection of quips. Not deep reading at first blush, nor hugely argumentative, but nonetheless thought-provoking in parts.

LOL! This reminds me of a quote from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy;




That's sheer awesome optimism from the "man in the field" in stark contrast to the pessimism inherent in Murphy's law. Because when stuff inevitably hits the fan, it hits the fan every time. LOL!

Honestly, the first part of your point sounds more like an issue for the second law of thermodynamics than anything else. If "what hits the fan will not be distributed evenly," then, in virtue of the law, things do not organize in random occurrence? they become more disorganized. I don't necessarily disagree with this at all, so no big issue here. But arent there inherent side affects with this assumption though?

That this "stems from natural law that prevents true socialism" is another matter. I am also curious to know more about this argument. But based off of what you stated in post #3, it seems even more likely, given the fact that when stuff does hit the fan, it will not distribute evenly, that with increased "mine's" there is almost a guaranteed chance of anything, whether that be the conception, acquisition, and relinquishment of some x, will inevitably equilibrate. Marx and entropy? Monkey's and Shakespeare?

So, arguably, I could say that even in the case of the greediest people in the world coveting everything imaginable, the point that things continue to propagate in disorder over time is not necessarily true, because that is in its own way a path towards equilibrium over an even greater amount of time.

That's hilarious! Well, mostly hilarious, 58% of the time...

My favorite movie with Will in it,by far