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...apply Rawlsian justice to economic redistribution, Ec 10 presents a variation of the following choice on its Unit 3 problem sets and unit tests...
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...
...give it some time. Undoubtedly, there are people out there who were switched as children. Their biggest gamble--playing Rawlsian roulette and ending up with an arbitrary allotment of wealth and family love--could really have nothing at all to do with their heredity or genetic endowment, but just a hospital shell game...
WITHIN THIS RAWLSIAN framework a reflexive defense of pornographic freedom becomes utterly meaningless. Why should pornography be legal before anyone knows whether he or she will be a victim of pornography...