 Do you think inheritance should be illegal?
btilly: I was all set for an interesting discussion on inheritance vs composition in OO design, and instead I got this?Ah well, I'll answer the question posed.  To me the only reason to reward different people differently is to create incentives to motivate people to produce more.  Inheriting great wealth takes people who likely have the ability to produce and robs them of the incentive.  Therefore I find myself in complete agreement with Warren Buffett that a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.