A Society Regulated By A Public Sense

Citizens Can Have Their Own Grounding In Their Comprehensive Doctrines, Whatever They Happen To Be.

The Intolerant Can Be Viewed As Free-riders, As Persons Who Seek The Advantages Of Just Institutions While Not Doing Their Share To Uphold Them.

If You Compare The United States With Europe, My View Is That What Happened In Europe Is That The Church Became Deeply Distrusted By People, Because It Sided With The Monarchs. It Instituted The Inquisition And Became Part Of The Repressive State Apparatus. That Never Happened Here. We Don't Have That History.

What's Important Is That People Give The Kinds Of Reasons That Can Be Understood And Appraised Apart From Their Particular Comprehensive Doctrines: For Example, That They Argue Against Physician-assisted Suicide Not Just By Speculating About God's Wrath Or The Afterlife, But By Talking About What They See As Assisted Suicide's Potential Injustices.

The Circumstances Of Justice May Be Described As The Normal Conditions Under Which Human Cooperation Is Both Possible And Necessary.