Jamal Greene: belief

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…As you probably know, for minor league baseball, a lot of labor law just doesn’t apply. People can work — if work’s even the right word — all crazy hours at very low pay, and nothing from the state intervenes. It’s considered partly an apprenticeship for many people. Yes, there may well be context in which we are willing to tolerate that as a society, but I think it has to be contextual. This is partly a political conversation. I might have my own views about this, and others have their views. It’s okay for those views to be worked out through politics, through forms of dialogue. Maybe you strike down something at the margins, and you see how the state responds. You see how people respond. I think courts should be part of a broader political conversation about these balances of values that we all disagree about. Now, you yourself emphasize that these partial rights — they often conflict with each other, sometimes by their very nature. If I put on my Henry Sidgwick philosopher hat, and I ask, “What’s the ultimate moral standard you use as a moralist when rights conflict, to arrive at a decision?” How do we solve the problem of pluralism is another way to put it, morally. What would your answer be?…

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