Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

A just system must generate its own support.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.