Our community land trust is making decisions about housing allocation using rawlsian principles, but the long-time residents keep arguing that their 'investment of time' should count for something, while newer members say that defeats the whole point of impartial justice. We're supposedly all committed to fairness but we define it completely differently.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared commitment to justice principles doesn't resolve fundamental disagreements about what those principles require in practice.
“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”
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