Justice As Fairness Provides What We Want.

Certainly It Is Wrong To Be Cruel To Animals And The Destruction Of A Whole Species Can Be A Great Evil. The Capacity For Feelings Of Pleasure And Pain And For The Form Of Life Of Which Animals Are Capable Clearly Impose Duties Of Compassion And Humanity In Their Case.

There Are Infinitely Many Variations Of The Initial Situation And Therefore No Doubt Indefinitely Many Theorems Of Moral Geometry.

You Might Say That, If Citizens Are Acting For The Right Reasons In A Constitutional Regime, Then Regardless Of Their Comprehensive Doctrines They Want Every Other Citizen To Have Justice. So You Might Say They're All Working Together To Do One Thing, Namely To Make Sure Every Citizen Has Justice. Now That's Not The Only Interest They All Have, But It's The Single Thing They're All Trying To Do. In My Language, They've Striving Toward One Single End, The End Of Justice For All Citizens.

The Concept Of Justice I Take To Be Defined, Then, By The Role Of Its Principles In Assigning Rights And Duties And In Defining The Appropriate Division Of Social Advantages. A Conception Of Justice Is An Interpretation Of This Role.

How Did Madison Get Separation Through Virginia And Later Congress? The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And The Smaller Sects Hated Jefferson; To Them He Was A Secularist Of The Worst Kind. But Madison Could Get Jefferson's Bill Passed Because The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And Smaller Sects Who Were Excluded In New England And In The South Got Together For Their Own Protection.