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To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.

John Rawls

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

John Rawls

The first statement of the two principals reads as follows. First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.

John Rawls

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

John Rawls

In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage.

John Rawls

The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principal of mutual advantage.

John Rawls

The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

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