As discussed before, Bigger did not choose to have such a complex lifestyle. His fate was already decided the day he was born with black skin. Bigger had known all his life “that sooner or later something like this would come to him. He had always felt outside of this white world, and now it was true” (Wright 270). The characters in “The Bluest Eye” had a lifestyle similar to Biggers but not quite. They were familiar with the normalcy of poverty and what their boundaries were. The author writes, “Outdoors we knew was the terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of excess was curtailed with it” (Morrison 17). With …show more content…
Maybe, but distributive justice is easier said than done. Although it appeals to mankind’s moral experiments and judgements, the human psychology and economic factors into justice have to be considered. Academic journalist Christopher Freimen believes in sufficientarianism. Sufficientarianism is a society in which everyone has access to sufficient sources until they have enough of the resources they need. In this way, the poverty and wealth gap will be less distinct. The author says, “A sufficientarian theory of distributive justice will be sensitive to the conditions conductive to the production of goods needed to improve the socio-economic condition of individuals below the threshold” (Freimen 36) In other words, this is a way to make classes less divided and more equal. Sufficientarianism allows “the surplus resources held by individuals above the sufficiency threshold to better slightly the condition of one individual below the threshold” (Freimen 34). This gives the upper class a way to help out the lower class so that they can have the same amount of opportunities