Justice demands not just a set of abstract values, but also an understanding of concrete cause-and-effect relations. If you collected a basket of mushrooms to feed your children with and I now take that basket from you by force, so that all your work has been for naught and your children will go to sleep hungry, that is unfair. It’s easy to grasp this, because it’s easy to see the cause-and-effect relation. Unfortunately, an inherent feature of our modern global world is that its causal relations are highly ramified and complex. I can live at home peacefully, never raising a finger to harm
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