Government, Justice, and Contempt

Many people are inclined to think that if everyone in our society pursued his or her own projects without harming others, then we would be living the happiest life possible. Lane is guided by the intuition that it should not be necessary to know if a particular act is in itself just or unjust in order to know whether or not we would be doing something unjust in producing it. The book tries to offer possible answers to questions of government’s involvement, concrete and abstract, with individual pursuit of happiness and the implications of free agency. Much is expected of government, what is illusion and what is justified complaint?