“We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.”

— John Rawls, book A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 135
Context: The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

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