Distributive Justice Rawls
2. Fair Inequalities: (a) The Difference Principle: All inequalities must be to the advantage of EVERYONE, and (b) Equal Opportunity: These inequalities must all be the result of positions and opportunities that are open/available to all. Rawls states that the first principle takes priority over the second. That is, any
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