<It's just a matter of intuition whether one agrees with Tom that someone who's been handed money on a silver platter should have the same right to control its distribution as someone who did something to earn that money. I don't.

It isn't intuition. Or emotion. It's reason.

If you can point to a single person who should have MORE right to control that money than the person who inherited, please do. And don't pull crap like "society" or "the public" out of the hat. There is no such thing and never was. It's a mythical entity that allows a looter to point somewhere else when he picks your pocket. Anyway, ten people, or a thousand people, have no more right to rob someone than one person does.