Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they were very young. Today, there is another worry. Explain Poussaint and Comer: "We blacks have a concern about the threat of training or 'brainwashing' black children to be passive or nonaggressive. We fear this has or can lead to acceptance of and adjustment to an unjust society." Blacks must always stand up for their rights, they believe, especially before authority figures, but never in self-destructive ways. When a policeman, for example, calls a black a "nigger," the incident should be reported immediately to the N.A.A.C.P. or another group in a position to take action...
There is probably no subject on which liberals and conservatives split more sharply than the causes and cures of crime. Liberals emphasize the unjust social conditions that are its breeding ground: slums, unemployment, poor education, racism, poverty amid affluence. Says former Attorney General Ramsey Clark: "We've got to deal massively...
...have options, just as Washington, Adams, and Jefferson had options. They were wealthy men who might have ducked the affair. But they moved to the only side they felt they could move to; the side of the persecuted. They chose to stand against the powerful, the rich and the unjust...
Enforcing the egalitarian pattern in this case would be unjust. Nozick argues, because it would prevent citizens from the free exercise of their preferences, even though they hurt no one else. In fact, enforcing any distribution pattern would involve continual interference with people's lives to prevent them from making transfers that would violate the pattern. A society which enforced equal income distribution would have to forbid people from doing things for other people for money after work. The government would have to outlaw capitalist acts between consenting adults. This restricts both what a person can do with his life...
There would be, therefore, no incompatibility between liberty and justice or trade-off between efficiency and equity. This does not, however, justify the present income and wealth distribution either. Because of the many government interventions that have provided unjust benefits to the rich, they would have to pay indemnities to those injured by these interventions, under Nozick's principle of rectification. Nevertheless, the theory does justify the income distribution that would arise from a laissez-faire, free market, economy. The importance of Nozick's theory cannot be overestimated. His challenge goes right to the heart of the argument for socialism...