Fair point; I’ve just weakened my phrasing in the section you quoted.
However, I do think the world is much closer to just in some important ways than most cultural elites think. E.g. for questions like “whose fault is it that poor countries are poor?” or “whose fault is it that poor people in rich countries are poor?”, the answer “it’s mostly their own fault” is somewhat taboo in elite circles.
To be clear, considerations of justice and blame on a collective level rather than an individual level are pretty complicated. But I think we do have to grapple with them in order to reason about ethics in any sensible way.
Fair point; I’ve just weakened my phrasing in the section you quoted.
However, I do think the world is much closer to just in some important ways than most cultural elites think. E.g. for questions like “whose fault is it that poor countries are poor?” or “whose fault is it that poor people in rich countries are poor?”, the answer “it’s mostly their own fault” is somewhat taboo in elite circles.
To be clear, considerations of justice and blame on a collective level rather than an individual level are pretty complicated. But I think we do have to grapple with them in order to reason about ethics in any sensible way.