From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Consenting Adults - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1458
Posted: Fri Feb 11 22:28:12 1983
Received: Sun Feb 13 04:23:08 1983

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uiucdcs!grunwald    Feb 11 20:34:00 1983

   When Nozick was making that comment, he was directly responding to a 
publication on Ethics by John Rawls. Rawls put forth an 'end-state'
theory. A sample 'end-state' theory of ethical distribution of resources
is an eqalitarian distribution, one in which every memory has an equal
share of the resources.
   Nozick felt that accepting any 'end-state' theory involved a loss of
freedom because an eqalitarian distribution as Rawls painted it would
involve an equal distribution across all time.
   Nozick felt that it was better to define an acceptable 'starting
condition' and then "fair rules of transfer".