"You'll be helping to fight crime, plus saving many innocent lives. "So... you want fries with that gruel?" The needs of the many... outweigh the needs of the one. |
Posted on 07/09/2002 12:35:38 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
That law should be based on fairness is an axiom of our age. The premise of many policies is moral: The prohibition against murder reflects the Judeo-Christian conception of human beings made in the image of God and possessing transcendent value. But in "Fairness Versus Welfare," Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell, both Harvard law professors, challenge this conventional wisdom. They argue that what matters most is whether a particular policy promotes the general welfare, saying "we discover very little basis for the use of notions of fairness as independent evaluative principles."
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"You'll be helping to fight crime, plus saving many innocent lives. "So... you want fries with that gruel?" The needs of the many... outweigh the needs of the one. |
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"Yes, we know you're innocent. However, throwing you in jail will serve as a deterrent to others. They don't know you're innocent, they'll assume you got caught and now you're in jail.