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InequalityJustice 14 - 08 Feb 2010 - Main.JohnJeffcott
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 Is inequality inherently unjust? If so, what can be done to reconcile justice with a world defined by scarcity of resources and the continual creation of unequal relationships? This twiki entry has the goal of providing various perspectives on the question of inequality and its link to justice.

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 "I think you're right that any notion of inequality being unjust has to stem from a sense that people are entitled to some basic level of fairness." It really couldn't be otherwise. To deny this is to deny that justice exists. But how to define that fairness is a question that is strikingly individualistic. And nevertheless, there does tend to be a vague consensus that emerges when large groups of people submit their views on the subject, though any attempt to write down that consensus in great detail tends to falter. The dissent is in the details.

-- ChristopherCrismanCox - 08 Feb 2010

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A question for all involved (perhaps to satisfy my own curiosity, perhaps to offer another perspective from which to structure discussion): If it were possible, would you want to live in a world without inequality, without injustice?

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to live in such a world any more than I would want to live in a world without death, because as Wallace Stevens so succinctly put it, "Death is the mother of Beauty."

-- JohnJeffcott - 08 Feb 2010

 
 
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