This is unfortunate, because the prospect of stuff like social justice is actually pretty great. Everybody agrees that it’s better when society is fair.
Hmm, I don’t think this is true…
But social justice is a calibration problem, and a hard one: there’s only one way to be fair, and infinitely many ways to be unfair.
Hmm, I don’t think this is true…
Ok, now this is definitely not true.
I didn’t expect that. Do you think there are cases where an unfair society is better than a fair society?
John has $100 and Jill has $100 is worse but more fair than John has $1,000 and Jill has $500.
Many people would think that the second case is more fair. It depends on how these dollars were obtained.