Why Have the Injustices Perpetrated against Blacks in America Not Been Rectified?

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“…One natural idea is that the individual with the largest complaint has most reason to reject a principle. It then appears that a principle can be reasonably rejected only when the largest complaint is larger than the complaint anyone else could bring forward against any alternative principle.2 Recently Scanlonian contractualism has received scrutiny for the way it deals with cases where risks, rather than certainties of harm and benefit, are at stake.3 My discussion in this article will focus on Scan-1 See Gauthier,Practical Reasoning,Nagel,The Possibility of Altruism,Rawls, A Theory of Justice, [23][24][25][26]Nozick,Anarchy,State,and Utopia,[32][33]Nagel,Mortal Questions,ch. 8;and Nagel,Equality and Partiality,"Contractualism and Utilitarianism," and What We Owe to Each Other,ch.…”

“…24 We can see this even more clearly when we consider cases where the complaint of the Californian who is going to die outweighs the complaint of a rigidly designated individual, such as Bob Johnson. Bob Johnson could rightly ask who the person is that can reasonably reject the proposal that would get him off the 23 The formulation here implies a rejection of the view that future contingents already have truth values. But my argument is not restricted to this metaphysical view.…”