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Michael Sandel on Justice

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The Responsibility of Collective Responsibility in the Face of Injustice

I don't agree there may be some element in reparations of repaying ill-gotten gains but collective responsibility goes far beyond trying to sort out precisely which of my benefits are traceable. I was the beneficiary of a scholarship funded by the great and burial of Cecil Rhodes generations of Rhodes scholars have undertaken initiatives to support educational opportunities for Black South Africans today. Where there is injustice everyone as a human being has a responsibility to contribute to remedying injustice, he says.

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