Theories for a Fair Society, According to Walzer and Mills At sometime throughout the course of their lives, every person will experience some sort of injustice. The amount, as well as the type of injustice are both sliding scales, and the experience will quite likely vary enormously between different people. In other words, offenses can be determined in many ways, and there continue to be disagreements between groups as to what real inequality entails. Is it due to the failure of the underprivileged group to work harder that they have become underprivileged? Or is it something inherent in the sociopolitical system that causes uneven distribution of power? What can be taken from people to make them underprivileged? On the opposite hand, what makes an individual privileged? How must we, as a society, take initiative to stop the privileged from using their power to undermine less privileged groups? Where is the root of injustice, and what will aid in removing these barriers to equality? Two political philosophers, Walzer and Mills, have asked these questions, then provided…show more content… But our duty as part of a society is not to eliminate them, but to make certain that no one sphere determines or is greater than any of the others. Walzer calls this theory “complex equality.” He further elaborates on this concept by giving an example of two politicians running for office: “[Following the theory of complex equality] citizen X may be chosen over citizen Y for political office, and then the two of them will be unequal in the sphere of politics. But they will not be unequal generally so long as X's office gives him no advantage over Y in any other sphere (Walzer 19).” In short, political contests and economic contests should not be linked, and economic status should not cross over or determine who wins the political
