Good to see you have given up on your appeal to authority. What does Harvard have compared to Notre Dame anyway?<\/p>\n
But now I am a little puzzled. \u00a0In your appeal-to-authority days, you asked: Why should we go with Notre Dame’s Sterba and his deep egalitarianism, when we can have Harvard’s Rawls with his acceptance of some inegalitarianism?<\/p>\n
In reply, I happily made you aware of your deeper anti-authoritarian sentiments and also pointed out that Rawls’s lesser inegalitarianism is only provisional, and that when his view is extended, like mine, to meet squarely issues of distant peoples and future generations, his view too would probably become as deeply egalitarian as mine it.<\/p>\n
But now you seem to be shifting gear 360 degrees. \u00a0Before you seemed happy with Rawls but unhappy with Sterba. \u00a0Now your worry about what the rich might find reasonable seems to go against both our views. \u00a0Of course, both of us have arguments for a “preferential option for the poor.” You presumably know Rawls’s argument. \u00a0Mine is given in the APA address \u00a0and briefly in my earlier comment “Reply to Ed.” \u00a0What is it that you now don’t find convincing about either Rawls’s or my arguments?<\/p>\n
Neither of us endorse property rights as they are. \u00a0How would Rawls achieve his ideal of equal opportunity that gives each person in a society the same opportunities for success as anyone else with the same native abilities. \u00a0Imagine the redistribution of educational resources necessary to achieve that! \u00a0So do you think that the rich have a good moral argument against the redistributive policies that both Rawls and I endorse? \u00a0The way I address my argument to libertarians, using their premises, makes it difficult from them to reject my conclusions. So were do you see a problem with Rawls’s or my moral arguments against the rich?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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