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...have three thousand six hundred seconds dissipate into thin air--well, things start to get a little suspicious. As we went to change our clocks this past weekend, it became necessary to ask ourselves the tough questions: Is it not unjust to deny precious seconds to a student demographic whose schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox...
...Rawlsian plan. So named by my suitemate who transferred from the Quad and feels that no one, under the "veil of ignorance," would choose to live there. Random or not, he argues, the system is at base unjust if it makes some people live unfairly disadvantaged for three years...
...children through a raft of recently legislated tax breaks, like $500-a-child credits. And, yes, companies that provide an array of family-friendly benefits (from child-care reimbursement to company scholarships) aimed solely at employees with children should revise their offerings to include all workers. It is similarly unjust to provide opportunities for leaves of absence, flextime and telecommuting exclusively on the basis of parental status and on the assumption that the concerns of parents are inherently more deserving than those of the childless. And most intelligent readers will share her revulsion at the knee-jerk family-fawning rhetoric...
...today's Supreme Court justices] decide to unanimously call it unconstitutional, it is really unjust," Strossen said...
Slavery was a remarkably cruel, vicious and unjust system. But in the world's history, it is one among many injustices that might deserve reparations. When there are so many ancient crimes that could be grounds for compensation, how does one decide which victims to reimburse, and on what scale? Paying monetary reparations for crimes many generations after the fact places governments in the morally awkward position of deciding which groups have suffered more than others and thereby deserve larger cash payments...