Question

Differentiate between individual rights and distributive justice in a decision-making problem.

Answer 1

Individual rights:

I hoped by so doing to help in the reorientation of sociology to certain important macro sociological problems , those having to do with the processes through which a society governs itself. Central to these problems is that of maintaining the delicate balance between the individual and society between the individual held and society between rights individually held and rights collectively at the level of the state.

Distributive justice:

Theories of distributive justice seek to specify what is meant by a just distribution of goods among members of society. All liberal theories (in the sense specified below) may be seen as expressions of laissez-faire with compensations for factors that they consider to be morally arbitrary. More specifically, such theories may be interpreted as specifying that the outcome of individuals acting independently, without the intervention of any central authority, is just, provided that those who fare ill (for reasons that the theories deem to be arbitrary, for example, because they have fewer talents than others) receive compensation from those who fare well.