Rawls’s hopes of a new social unity based on keeping our religious and moral views private must be dashed. And, of course, they have been dashed. This approach has been used for a generation and has not worked. Our culture is split and fractured by warring factions with fundamentally different visions of justice and social good. The appeal to human rights strictly on the basis of “reasonable self-interest” is uncompelling.16
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