Word: person
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According to the ruling, Silber told one female professor that a person with her credentials would do well "and anyway... your husband is a parachute, so why are you worried...
...justice on the "Original Position." In this hypothetical situation, people decide before they are born how to organize the society in which they will live. The actors have no idea of the places they will occupy in this society--one might end up a corporate magnate or a homeless person...
There are 100 people in an economy. In one situation, 99 people earn $100,000 and I person earns $1. The alternative is that all 100 people in the economy can earn $2. In which society would the Rawlsian person want to live...
...afraid to make the two pies the same size? Probably because the option of having everybody in society earn $9,900,001 divided by 100--or $99,000 per person--seems quite reasonable...
...student said his attackers appeared to be intent on assaulting him regardless of his ability to fight back. "I'm a six-foot tall male in fairly good shape. They were looking for the next person who was coming down there, period," he said...