1/5 With social justice activism we are seeing what happens when you go first in a $10 ultimatum game and offer $3.
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Life, limb, freedom from bondage (so you can pursue happiness), . . . nearly everyone would include these. After that you reveal what kind of individualist you are. There's something of a nested doll structure here . . .
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Naked economic Individualists add property and freedom of contract, Classical liberals take those and add freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc. Modern liberals take all of those and add positive rights, such as for education and health care . . .
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. . . the more you add, the more trade-offs have to be made in terms of already existing rights.
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I would imagine that we will always be arguing over where exactly to draw the lines, and which trade-offs are worth making.
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The system seems to slowly tend toward more fairness over time. We learn which parts of our outcomes are due to our own choices and merit, and which are due to luck, inheritance, and systemic bias, and we try to nudge things away from luck and bias and toward merit and autonomy.
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