Philosophy 2074F/G Chapter Notes -Wilt Chamberlain, Historical Right, Robert Nozick
31 Oct 2014
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Distributive justice nozick: wilt chamberlain: consider this story: Wilt chamberlain: there is a society that is currently in a perfectly just state. In that society, wilt chamberlain is a very talented basketball player. Wilt offers to tour around and play basketball in front of crowds, and charges. Now ask: does the result (where 1 million people have. The people freely gave their quarters to wilt, and no one was harmed, so the result is just. Now imagine that some of the spectators (maybe even a lot of them) just found their quarters laying around. Maybe some of them found their quarter laying on a busy sidewalk; others might have found theirs in the middle of the woods near a campsite. Finding something that is unowned and claiming it as your own seems permissible, especially when no one else is harmed or made worse off by it.
