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Chapter 4 argues that the fairness principle—the lodestar of so many arguments for the duty to obey the law—can direct us to resist injustice. It lays the grounds for the argument by analyzing the principle’s ban on free-riding and clarifying its relation to exploitative and harmful social schemes. Under certain conditions, wrongfully benefiting from harmfu and exploitative—that is, unfair—social schemes is morally akin to free-riding. Fairness demands ceasing to benefit from such schemes, and radically reforming them so that they no longer produce wrongful benefits. Since resistance is often critical to bring about reform, there is a political obligation to resist social schemes from which one wrongfully benefits. Fairness also supports solidarity with and among the oppressed in the resistance efforts.
Title: Fairness
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Chapter 4 argues that the fairness principle—the lodestar of so many arguments for the duty to obey the law—can direct us to resist injustice.
It lays the grounds for the argument by analyzing the principle’s ban on free-riding and clarifying its relation to exploitative and harmful social schemes.
Under certain conditions, wrongfully benefiting from harmfu and exploitative—that is, unfair—social schemes is morally akin to free-riding.
Fairness demands ceasing to benefit from such schemes, and radically reforming them so that they no longer produce wrongful benefits.
Since resistance is often critical to bring about reform, there is a political obligation to resist social schemes from which one wrongfully benefits.
Fairness also supports solidarity with and among the oppressed in the resistance efforts.
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