Business Ethics
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Battling over bottled Water
Nozick maintains that people are entitled to their holdings as long as they have acquired them fairly ( Shaw and Barry, 2004, 110). This is a sound statement that most people would agree with. Where we get conflict or disagreement is the nature of what we determine is fair and to extend that point reasonable. Aside from asking is it fair and reasonable we must ask is it just.
When one considers the land the notion of ownership and how that is applied to what is below the land can be seen in some eyes to be different when scale and purpose is applied. A farmer taking water for irrigation from this own property ( land ) is seen as means to an end. The general perception would be is that is a fair and reasonable use of water which comes from the land. It would become unfair should the farmer by use of the water through scale negate others from the use of the water.
Rawls theory of justice has two key threads the notion of......
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