How to Justify the Idea of Equality

Aedto: We can justify the idea of equality by looking at the world impersonally, and we see that we're no better than anybody else. Aedto: It doesn't seem to me that you have to then jump to the conclusion that therefore everybody is equally entitled to money and wealth as i am. The most significant legal thinker, really, of the twentieth century believed that private property rights were conventional, rather than natural. If rights are not natural, then they can be modified at any time according to whatever blue print for society some politician may have.