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How do we approach the problems rationally from justice and injustice equality and inequality individual rights and the common good that contentious area pg 28 The author Sandal also mentions different views about justice from several philosophers and captures the meaning of justice from analysis of those views His argument is whether a person's behavior is justice depends on the individual conviction and whether his ideas correspond with the mainstream consciousness A simple explanation is that a person makes a decision that is not accepted by the public and his behavior is unjust from others views Critical Analysis People are easy to weigh justice with utilitarianism They always follow the minority vote and sacrifice individual interests to fulfill the most Sandel mentions a problem in the book People drive a car on the road and four pedestrians cross the road You have no time to stop and you only have two options one is to hit the four pedestrians which in front of you the second is to turn right into a passer by on the sidewalk The most glaring weakness of utilitarianism is that it fails to respect individual rights pg 37
