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• suspect as “traitors”—and therefore also ineligible as either role models or direct sources of advice, skills, or other human capital.
• we all seem to agree is the need for justice. But our agreement is only seeming because we mean such different things by the same word.
• If social justice can be distinguished from any other conception of justice, it is probably by its reaction against the great inequalities of income and wealth which we see all around us.
• Milton Friedman, who referred to “gross inequities of income and wealth” which “offend most of us” and declared: “Few can fail to be moved by the contrast between the luxury enjoyed by some and the grinding poverty suffered by others.”1
• Adam Smith, the father of laissez-faire economics, deplored not only the callousness of the rich and powerful of his day, “who never look upon their inferiors as their fellow-creatures,” but deplored also our “obsequiousness to our superiors”