Philosophy 2810F/G Chapter Notes -Negative And Positive Rights, Triage, Infant Mortality
18 Sep 2012
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What"s pogge"s thesis reforming the practice of state - citizens hold the government accountable: most people think its not a moral problem if some people make more than others, if a country has more than another. Pogge says its income inequality is unjust and not fair. Overview income inequality makes eradicating poverty possible severe poverty is not primarily the result of morally unproblematic processes. 3. it came about in a just way it could have come about in a just way the institutional rules through which it came about are just. Inequality did just occur radical inequality is morally justified if. It evolved in a morally unproblematic way. The wealthy are mostly causally involved in its production it did evolve unproblematically. Much of it was built up in the colonial era, when todays affluent countries rules today"s poor regions of the world. Trading their people like cattle destroying their political institutions.
