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Humanity before Justice

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Advocates of the welfare state often appeal to social justice as the moral basis of their claim that distribution of scarce resources ought to be made in proportion to the needs of potential recipients, at least to a certain minimum level of satisfaction. More generally, it is commonly assumed that need is certainly one and perhaps the main factor which ought to determine any just distribution of benefits and burdens. Thus, when the Labour Government abolished medical prescription charges under the National Health Service in 1964 the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, defended this step in the House of Commons by saying that it was ‘unjust’ to put such ‘burdens on the old and sick’ and he went on to cite the principle ‘from each according to his means, to each according to his needs’.

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  • Campbell, T. D., 1974. "Humanity before Justice," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:4:y:1974:i:01:p:1-16_00
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    1. Risse, Mathias, 2014. "Thinking about Justice," Working Paper Series rwp14-010, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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