Reparation if we injure someone we should make up for

pain, or happiness over unhappiness, for everyone affected by that action.
Reparation: If we injure someone, we should make up for the harm we did them.
Self-Improvement: We should improve our own lives (morally, intellectually, physically) to the
extent we are able.
Utilitarianism: A consequentialist theory. Right and wrong depends on the consequences of one's
action for everyone who might be affected by them.
Will: Is our capacity to make decisions and act on them.
Ch.3:
Desert: Everyone should get what he or she deserves
Drowning Child Story: Obligation to assist
Egalitarianism: Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare
of society as a whole cannot override.
Equality: The burden of proof is on those who would endorse unequal treatment. Is there any
good reason why A had more than B?
Fairness: Involves the fair treatment of members of groups of people or else looks backwards to
the fair compensation of prior injuries.
Five Rival Principles of Distribution:
To each an equal share
To each according to individual need
To each according to personal effort
To each according to social contribution

To each according to merit
Libertarianism: “a state that taxes its better-off citizens to support the less fortunate ones violates
the liberty of individuals by forcing them to support projects, policies, or persons that have not