We Must Choose For Others As We

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.

Justice Is The First Virtue Of Social Institutions, As Truth Is Of Systems Of Thought. A Theory However Elegant And Economical Must Be Rejected Or Revised If It Is Untrue; Likewise Laws And Institutions No Matter How Efficient And Well-arranged Must Be Reformed Or Abolished If They Are Unjust.

An Injustice Is Tolerable Only When It Is Necessary To Avoid An Even Greater Injustice.

Different Political Views, Even If They're All Liberal, In The Sense Of Supporting Liberal Constitutional Democracy, Undoubtedly Have Some Notion Of The Common Good In The Form Of The Means Provided To Assure That People Can Make Use Of Their Liberties, And The Like.

You Hear That Liberalism Lacks An Idea Of The Common Good, But I Think That's A Mistake.