A Political Conception Just Applies To The

Justice Is Happiness According To Virtue.

The Natural Distribution Is Neither Just Nor Unjust; Nor Is It Unjust That Persons Are Born Into Society At Some Particular Position. These Are Simply Natural Facts. What Is Just And Unjust Is The Way That Institutions Deal With These Facts.

What's Important Is That People Give The Kinds Of Reasons That Can Be Understood And Appraised Apart From Their Particular Comprehensive Doctrines: For Example, That They Argue Against Physician-assisted Suicide Not Just By Speculating About God's Wrath Or The Afterlife, But By Talking About What They See As Assisted Suicide's Potential Injustices.

The Question Is, We Have A Particular Problem. How Many Religions Are There In The United States? How Are They Going To Get On Together? One Way, Which Has Been The Usual Way Historically, Is To Fight It Out, As In France In The Sixteenth Century. That's A Possibility.

If You Compare The United States With Europe, My View Is That What Happened In Europe Is That The Church Became Deeply Distrusted By People, Because It Sided With The Monarchs. It Instituted The Inquisition And Became Part Of The Repressive State Apparatus. That Never Happened Here. We Don't Have That History.