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The economics of equity and justice : Comments
By Kasy Chambers, published 30/6/2009The traditional distance between ethics and economics - or between the community sector and business - is artificial.
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The initiation of aggression: assault, battery, murder, wounding, slavery, false imprisonment, threats of same.
“And why do I assume that such offences are wrong when I write to you?”
Because they must logically be the basis of ethics and human society?
“When they [rights to person and property] conflict, which must give way?”
What would be an example of them conflicting?
“Why is causing pain to someone (when the body will recover) morally worse than destroying the vegetables in his garden?”
Perhaps because not violating the person is the primary right from which property rights derive?
“Why should we require a older person in a lifeboat to give up their place to a child?”
I don’t know. Should we? Why? We might prefer the child as of sentiment, but not as of right.
“How are we to distinguish the cases where preventing suicide is justified from those where it is not?”
I don’t think we can.
Q.E.D.