Well-to-do Blacks (John Speaking)
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Here's another way to look at compensation. Suppose we found out that the United States government did radiation experiments on people without their permission. We would probably all agree that those people deserve some sort of compensation if they were harmed. But suppose that the people in the experiments are dead. Wouldn't we agree that it was fair to give compensation to their families?

It seems that there is something about the closeness of families that allows us to use one member as a substitute for another in at least some cases of compensation for injustice. We could apply that logic to the case of black Americans too.

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