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 I amazes me that there are utilitarian theories of justice at all. Justice is about distributing burdens and benefits in the proper way, whatever that may be. Utilitarianism isn't about distribution at all. It's about maximizing the aggregate of something (human welfare,
or human satisfaction, or pleasure, for example).Utilitarianism is unable to to consider distribution or the various claims that people may have to goods or other benefits. You can't say "It is just for me to profit from this thing because I invented it." And the same thing is true for burdens or punishments. Some people deserved to be punished because of what they have done. But, in principle, can utilitarianism allow for that any more that it can allow for claims on goods? There's a disconnect here. And it's important. It makes all purely utilitarian theories of justice a sham. |
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