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Tags: Subjectivism, Media and Culture

03/16/2011 Ben O'Neill

Social justice actually refers to an intention to use force to acquire one’s desires. Not to earn desirable goods by rational thought and action, production and voluntary exchange, but to go in there and forcibly take goods from those who can supply them, writes Ben O’Neill.

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