In today’s world there are many different types of societies, all based on where you are living at the moment. Here in the United States the society changes as the time progresses. As things tend to change with the culture of the country. The United States is a diverse society made up of many different cultures that range from multiple different international countries. Both Rawls and Nozick have their own theories on justice, about whether an act is just or unjust and how we humans should live by them. Within Rawls’ theory he believes that 1. Principle of Equal Liberty, meaning that everyone should have equal rights. 2. Difference Principle, a). that refers to the social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both to the greatest benefit to the least advantaged, and b). Attached to positions and offices open to all.
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The society here in the United States conforms to the theory of Rawls’ Principle of Equal Liberty, by having the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This amendment states, that the Constitution guaranteed the equal rights to all persons regardless of their sex. Both men and women in this country have the same rights, for example a women can run for President of the United States. Our society deviates from Rawls’ claim to equality because of the current events of what is happening in the sports world. With Colin Kaepernick starting a movement to kneel during the national anthem to protest against police brutality. Kaepernick was the lone protester which evidently cost him his job as an NFL quarterback. The story has flipped as numerous NFL teams are now protesting the national anthem due to President Trump’s comments. In the private job world like the NFL, the equality can be debated but for someone to start a protest that ultimately gets him fired, but then to turn around and have teams doing it without any repercussion is not the same degree of equality. Within the Difference Principle as a society we tend to deviate from it more than we actually conform to it. For example, when power plants that deteriorate the environment for neighboring family farmers while provide jobs for the highly paid professionals who move in from the larger nearby cities. This helps the people who are already at an advantage but it is not helping the disadvantaged people at all, whom suffer already and could possibly make their life worse. Within the Entitlement Theory of Nozick he focuses on the distribution of property. 1. Principle of Justice in Acquisition, governs process by which unowned things become owned, 2. Principle of Justice in Transfer, governs process by which owned things become owned by someone else, and 3. Principle of Justice in Rectification, governs process by which violations of first two principles are to be addressed. Nozick believes within his theory that whether a distribution is just or unjust, depends entirely on how it developed. We as a society deviate from the rights to one’s property by taxing. As discussed in class, ‘Taxation is Slavery’. It is taking the percentage of pay one has worked for and now making them work for ‘free’ during that time period, which is illegal because slavery is but taxation is done by the government. We can not use people as a means-to-an-end, because morally it is not right
The society here in the United States conforms to the theory of Rawls’ Principle of Equal Liberty, by having the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This amendment states, that the Constitution guaranteed the equal rights to all persons regardless of their sex. Both men and women in this country have the same rights, for example a women can run for President of the United States. Our society deviates from Rawls’ claim to equality because of the current events of what is happening in the sports world. With Colin Kaepernick starting a movement to kneel during the national anthem to protest against police brutality. Kaepernick was the lone protester which evidently cost him his job as an NFL quarterback. The story has flipped as numerous NFL teams are now protesting the national anthem due to President Trump’s comments. In the private job world like the NFL, the equality can be debated but for someone to start a protest that ultimately gets him fired, but then to turn around and have teams doing it without any repercussion is not the same degree of equality. Within the Difference Principle as a society we tend to deviate from it more than we actually conform to it. For example, when power plants that deteriorate the environment for neighboring family farmers while provide jobs for the highly paid professionals who move in from the larger nearby cities. This helps the people who are already at an advantage but it is not helping the disadvantaged people at all, whom suffer already and could possibly make their life worse. Within the Entitlement Theory of Nozick he focuses on the distribution of property. 1. Principle of Justice in Acquisition, governs process by which unowned things become owned, 2. Principle of Justice in Transfer, governs process by which owned things become owned by someone else, and 3. Principle of Justice in Rectification, governs process by which violations of first two principles are to be addressed. Nozick believes within his theory that whether a distribution is just or unjust, depends entirely on how it developed. We as a society deviate from the rights to one’s property by taxing. As discussed in class, ‘Taxation is Slavery’. It is taking the percentage of pay one has worked for and now making them work for ‘free’ during that time period, which is illegal because slavery is but taxation is done by the government. We can not use people as a means-to-an-end, because morally it is not right