Word: sakes
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Section leaders encourage students to object to Rawls' scheme on the grounds that it unwisely compromises efficiency for the sake of equity. It is true that a Rawlsian society does focus on the least well-off and contends that income differentials must be justified. But all the Difference Principle asks is that the inequalities in society be harnessed to provide some benefit to the poor. Rawls' "Justice as Fairness" is not about levelling equality. A more truly Rawlsian policy might be adjusting marginal tax rates on high incomes and channeling the revenue to the less well...
...sake of political expedience,representatives of both groups said they wouldlikely end up compromising. Masters who have fromthe beginning been averse to any change agreedthat if it were necessary to alter the system,they would prefer a modest proposal. And most saidthe student suggestion of "non-ordered choice"seemed the most acceptable...
Never mind the fact that, regrettably for fairness' sake at least, the draft does not now exist and that our troops for any war would predominantly come from poor and minority backgrounds...
...Today, I appeal to the unions and the American labor movement, the business community, and government to look for ways to support a partnership for progress in Poland for the sake of a nation and a people that need and deserve our help," he said...
Actually, I don't have bladder control problems, but this hypothetical scenario aptly illustrates how Americans in particular and humans in general foolishly ignore pressing environmental questions. We are unwilling to suffer minor inconvenience now for the sake of a habitable planet later...