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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: justice as fairness
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 16:44:51 EST
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It is not so much as I disagree with the idea ``justice as fairness''
as that I don't think that there is some universal concept of fairness.
Remember, Richard Carnes and I couldn't agree about the casino.

I think that one would do better to define justice as an absense of
injustice. Then one could compose a list of injustices. Unless one
was willing to construct such a list on an ad hoc basis, I think that
the compilation of such as list would require some resonably consistent
moral theory. I do not, however, expect to see a universal moral theory.
Rawl's theory of Justice and Nozick's theory of justice are 2 theories,
each founded on different moral theories, which conflict in a great
many places.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura