No One Deserves His Greater Natural Capacity

No One Deserves His Greater Natural Capacity Nor Merits A More Favorable Starting Place In Society.

People Can Make Arguments From The Bible If They Want To. But I Want Them To See That They Should Also Give Arguments That All Reasonable Citizens Might Agree To.

Ideally Citizens Are To Think Of Themselves As If They Were Legislators And Ask Themselves What Statutes, Supported By What Reasons Satisfying The Criterion Of Reciprocity, They Would Think Is Most Reasonable To Enact.

At Best The Principles That Economists Have Supposed The Choices Of Rational Individuals To Satisfy Can Be Presented As Guidelines For Us To Consider When We Make Our Decisions.

The Fault Of The Utilitarian Doctrine Is That It Mistakes Impersonality For Impartiality.