To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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