Prompt III: Distributive Justice and Reparations:

1. Write a short and precise introduction (under 40 words), explaining whether you will provide an objection to
   reparations, or make a case for the compatibility or reparations with Rawls’ Principles of Justice. Make sure to
   include the following in your essay:
2. Explain why Rawls believes that rational agents select the Difference Principle from behind the Veil of
   Ignorance?
3. Next, explain why Nozick thinks that the implementation of Rawls’ Difference Principle would interrupt
   Nozick’s principles of Just Acquisition and Transfer.
4. Next, explain why an ideally just society, on Nozick’s theory, would have to include reparations for slavery,
   but an ideally just society, on Rawls’ theory, might not. Use examples from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s article, “The
   Case for Reparations.”
5. Finally, present an objection to reparations that would be challenging for either Coates or Nozick to defend.
   Alternately, present an account of why reparations for slavery might be justified (and morally required) even if
   our society embraced Rawlsian justice (and followed his two principles of justice).
6. You do not need to include a “conclusion” to your essay