NUT: Though we are moral beings, we've always had unjust societies where coercive power in the hands of the few enables the unequal distribution of goods.
NUT: Despite our moral intuitions, all significant social power develops social inequality because it gives more privilege to itself than it deserves, taking whatever it can.
NUT: Inequality occurs when land is disproportionately distributed to a few, leaving most powerless.NUT: Social injustice grows through the acceptance of social gradations--which are introduced with slavery--and the highest social gradation now is the commercial class or business man.
NUT: Coercive power may be capable of maintaining internal peace for a while, but it encourages violence toward other groups, thereby guaranteeing a cycle of rebellion and suffering.NUT: While society has been in a state of perpetual war, to move toward a moral society we must destroy forms of power that cannot be made socially responsible and non-violent.
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