On Apr 27, 9:19=A0am, ZerkonX <Z...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:54:41 -0700, Immortalist wrote:
> > By what procedure can self-interested persons with legitimate
competing
> > claims adopt principles for just institutions and practices?
>
> Justice can only be served when all self-interests before it are treated
> equally.
>
> If a system of justice is overridden by or a reflection of an economic
> system in which it operates, and that economic system depends on unequal
> distribution of wealth or influence, 'justice' then becomes a word
> without action. =A0
I don't understand what you mean by this. Wealth and influence are by
their very nature distributed unequally and would not exist, but for
their inequality. Perhaps you suggest that any inequality is 'unfair,'
but there is no economic system ever devised that provides for other
than op****tunity. Nature is not equal and an economy in which
everything is equal is an economy in stasis - absolutely motionless
and no economy and no progress at all.
Justice is an ideal under which all face the true consequences of
their actions.
-solon fox
>
> Rawls seems to have mistakenly taken this for granted or at least placed
> it in a list among others things. Until inequality is resolved, there
can
> be no other real consideration.
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