Principles of Compensation (Fred Speaking)
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		Ann

I accept the analogy to some extent, but you're forgetting something. It isn't just anybody who is morally required to compensate children for something stolen from their parents. It is the parties who stole it. We don't just go up to a randomly selected person on the street and make them pay the compensation. But that's the situation we're facing with some affirmative action programs. Strong affirmative action programs ask people who did not discriminate to pay compensation.

That in itself is an injustice --and that matters. What we can rightly do to compensate anyone is limited by what is fair to others. You can't just take my car and give it to someone whose car has been stolen. You need to find the thief and make HIM repay the victim.

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