정의란 무엇인가(원서 정리 1)

4. Hired Help/Markets and Morals

In this chapter, We'll consider the morality of paying people to perform two very different kinds of work-fighting wars and bearing children. Thinking through the rights and wrongs of markets in these contested cases will help us clarify the differences among leading theories of justice.

What’s Just-Drifting Soldiers or Hiring Them?

Abraham Lincoln signed the Union’s first draft law. A confederate draft was already in place.

Conscription ran against the grain of the American individualist tradition, and the Union draft made a striking concession to that tradition: Anyone who was drafted and didn’t want to serve could hire someone else to take his place.