Mason provides compelling grounds for thinking that both considerations of justice and of social and political equality can generate strong reasons for individuals to give weight to the potential impacts on their fellow citizens when making choices that are widely viewed as (merely) private.
Brian Berky, Stanford University, Mind Association
Mason provides compelling grounds for thinking that both considerations of justice and of social and political equality can generate strong reasons for individuals to give weight to the potential impacts on their fellow citizens when making choices that are widely viewed as (merely) private. He thereby offers a serious challenge to the view that, as citizens, we can draw a principled distinction between the public and private spheres, and owe duties to our fellow citizens, as citizens, only within the public sphere. This is a challenge that defenders of such a principled distinction must face up to, and it seems to me unlikely that a successful response can be offered.
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