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Scenario

When communities can't agree on what impartial justice means

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.

What we've seen

Shared commitment to justice principles doesn't resolve fundamental disagreements about what those principles require in practice.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”

Peri

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