The Least Unjust Solution?
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Bringing up compensation again leads us back to the problems we have discussed. I've been thinking about them while we've been talking about statistics. We've been assuming that there is a policy that is entirely fair and just to everyone involved. What if there is no such policy?

What if we are faced with a situation in which we can only hope to arrive at the "least unjust" solution? What if every policy includes injustices?

I'm not sure that this is true; but if it is, that might be the key to the way out. Maybe we have to stop looking for a perfectly just policy and start thinking about how to minimize the injustices we can't avoid.

Reference: The idea that we can only hope for the "least unjust" solution to the ethical problems connected with affirmative action is discussed by Lloyd Weinreb in Natural Law and Justice, p. 232-233.

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