A grave injustice

A Price for Injustice

C hristopher Ochoa was sentenced to life in prison for the October 1988 rape and murder of NancyDePriest. The victim had been tied up, sexually assaulted, and shot in the head during an earlymorning robbery at an Austin, Texas Pizza Hut where she worked. Ada JoAnn Taylor was sentenced to 40 years in prison for playing a role in the 1985 murder and rape of Helen Wilson. The victim was stabbed an...

Rational Injustice

Different attempts have been made to answer Reich's question why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike. The two most influential approaches have been the ideological one and the gunman theory. The gunman theory seems to have the upper hand in that it not only explains many cases of successful oppression by a minority of a m...

A Grave Case of Myopia

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The Disutility of Injustice

Taking advantage of injustice

What, if anything, is wrong with taking advantage of people’s unjust circumstances when they both benefit from and consent to the exchange? The answer, some believe, is that such exchanges are wrongfully exploitative. I argue that this answer is incomplete at best, and elaborate a different one: to take advantage of injustice is to become complicit in its reproduction. I also argue that the cas...