Distributive Corrective Compensatory Retributive Forms of Justice Distributive Corrective Compensatory Retributive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZXDC3SNFM Listen to the professor discuss the differences between the forms of justice

Wealth & Income How is wealth different from income? Wealth is what you own minus what you owe. Is it possible to have negative wealth? Yes, when you owe more than you own. (To be in debt) What are examples of assets that lower-income people might have? Cash(savings or checking account) furniture, car. What are examples of assets that middle-income people might have? Cash, equity in a house(amount of money you have already paid against the value of your home), a small business, a little bit of stock and/or a retirement fund. What are examples of assets owned by the top 1 %? Real estate, large stock and bond holdings, businesses, paintings and other collectibles. Wealth & Income * Remember Thomas More’s Utopian Society? He imagined a society united by universal justice that governed all human beings where money was abolished and the government assured a fair distribution of wealth.

The Ten Chairs Activity I need 10 volunteers in front with their chairs. Each person represents 10% of the US population – top 10%?. Each chair represents 1/10 of all the private material wealth in the US. This is what it would look like if wealth were evenly distributed (distributive justice?) Currently the top 10% owns 71% of all private wealth. Even within the top 10% there is a great disparity – the top 1% holds 34% of all wealth The Ten Chairs Activity

Distributive justice is concerned with the fair allocation of resources among diverse members of a community. Fair allocation typically takes into account the total amount of goods to be distributed, the distributing procedure, and the pattern of distribution that results. Because societies have a limited amount of wealth and resources, a question arises as to how those benefits ought to be distributed. The common answer is that public assets should be distributed in a reasonable manner so that each individual receives a "fair share." But this leaves open the question of what constitutes a "fair share." Various principles might determine how goods are distributed. Equality, Equity, and Need are among the most common criteria. If equality is regarded as the ultimate criterion determining who gets what, each person will get the same amount. However, due to differences in levels of need, this will not result in an equal outcome. For example, every incoming freshman to a local college with a GPA above 3.0 might be offered a $500 scholarship. This is a nice reward for students and parents who can afford the remaining tuition, but is of no help to families that cannot afford the additional $6000/year fee to attend the school. Distributive Justice

Senator Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist Senator Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist. Socialism in its essence is a state of society in which all people work cooperatively as equals for the common good of all. In recent times people who hold this principle have been describing this principle as democratic socialism, to distinguish the principle from authoritarian and undemocratic states which have wrongly described themselves as socialist in character. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r_OYC9dSs "The average American is sitting at home. His or her standard of living is declining. Can't afford to send their kids to college. May have lost their home, and I think what this revelation, this disclosure is about, is a group of enormously powerful people - who today in many instances are making even more money than they did before they were bailed out by the taxpayers - and I think the American people are saying hey, what does the government do for me?" If you were going to push someone off the “chairs” to make room, who would it be and why?

Restorative justice also sometimes called "reparative or corrective justice” is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims and offenders, instead of the need of the community to exact punishment (Retributive justice). Victims are given an active role in a dispute and offenders are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions, "to repair the harm they've done - by apologizing, returning stolen money, or (for example) doing community service”. It is based on a theory of justice that focuses on crime and wrong doing as acted against the individual or community rather than the state. Restorative Justice involving a fostering of dialogue between the offender and the victim show the highest rates of victim satisfaction, true accountability by the offender, and reduced repeat offences. Corrective Justice

justice concerned with restoring to persons what they lost when harmed by a second party. Compensatory Justice

Chocolate The Bitter Truth https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mo7g4

Chocolate – The Bitter Truth After your groups have been selected, find your group mates, Select a member as secretary, a timekeeper and a speaker, Prepare to discuss the following questions regarding the film you watched at home: Chocolate – The Bitter Truth

Timekeeper: No more than 5 minutes per question. What are some of the ethical issues you see concerning chocolate production in the film? Using the 3 Principles of Justice, discuss the injustices of the issues involved in the chocolate production. In your opinion, which form(s) of justice would work best towards diminishing the issues in chocolate production/harvesting? Timekeeper: No more than 5 minutes per question.

Now the secretary will hand over the notes to the speaker in order for them to share with the class what was discussed before handing it in to me. Who will like to start us off??? Time for sharing