cbostrum (02/07/83)
Heres an interesting subject to discuss: "The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults" True or false? (courtesy of Robert Nozick, Anarchy State and Utopia)
grunwald (02/12/83)
#R:watmath:-447700:uiucdcs:10600055:000:612 uiucdcs!grunwald Feb 11 20:34:00 1983 When Nozick was making that comment, he was directly responding to a publication on Ethics by John Rawls. Rawls put forth an 'end-state' theory. A sample 'end-state' theory of ethical distribution of resources is an eqalitarian distribution, one in which every memory has an equal share of the resources. Nozick felt that accepting any 'end-state' theory involved a loss of freedom because an eqalitarian distribution as Rawls painted it would involve an equal distribution across all time. Nozick felt that it was better to define an acceptable 'starting condition' and then "fair rules of transfer".