Responsibility)

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

In a message dated 00-01-25 19:06:28 EST, you write:

<< Rawls' position as I recall is that laws are justified in utilitarian 
terms but

 the particular decision of a judge should be based upon the retributive view 

 . . .

 (See Rawls' TWO CONCEPTS OF RULES) >>

This is pre-Rawls Rawls, a 1955 paper, well antedating the (decidedly 
non-utilitarian work that makes Rawls a really major thinker. 

--jks