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Comment author: tut 04 September 2014 03:44:34PM *  2 points [-]

"Sowing and reaping ought to be uncorrelated" is a popular theory of justice

Is it? My impression is that very few people would consider the world in which what you do doesn't matter at all to be just ...

Those people usually don't talk about it as "sowing" and "reaping". But it is not rare for people to think of justice as some distribution of stuff that you decide on behind a "veil of ignorance" where your actions are irrelevant because "you" aren't any specific person.

Edit: And I did not downvote you. I upvoted the parent of this comment.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 September 2014 03:55:32PM 1 point [-]

Ah, I see. Yes, egalitarians (especially hard-core ones) will say that every human being should get the same "distribution of stuff" regardless of what he sows. That's a notable part of communism: "To each according to his needs...". Point taken.

And yet, this is only about economics and material stuff. Lack of connection between sowing and reaping means, for example, that there is no system of justice in the law-and-order sense: murder would go unpunished, etc.