laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (03/26/85)
It is not so much as I disagree with the idea ``justice as fairness'' as that I don't think that there is some universal concept of fairness. Remember, Richard Carnes and I couldn't agree about the casino. I think that one would do better to define justice as an absense of injustice. Then one could compose a list of injustices. Unless one was willing to construct such a list on an ad hoc basis, I think that the compilation of such as list would require some resonably consistent moral theory. I do not, however, expect to see a universal moral theory. Rawl's theory of Justice and Nozick's theory of justice are 2 theories, each founded on different moral theories, which conflict in a great many places. Laura Creighton utzoo!laura