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Distributive justice

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DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. That virtue, whose object it is to distribute rewards and punishments to every one according to his merits or demerits. Tr. of Eq. 3; Lepage, El. du Dr. ch. 1, art. 3, Sec. 2 1 Toull. n. 7, note. See Justice.



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Likewise, those who presume that speaking English is a sure guide to cultural pluralism might have another look at places like Zimbabwe, in which culture was overwhelmed by doctrines of distributive justice or, more accurately, retribution.
Traditional medical ethics includes familiar-sounding issues such as informed consent, privacy of personal medical information, social and economic distributive justice as it applies to federal and state health care policymaking and life-end issues such as living wills and euthanasia.
Ryan insisted that distributive justice is the necessary corrective to capitalism's focus on generating, rather than distributing, wealth.
 
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