Anarchy State And Utopia Chapter 7 Summary

Chapter 7 of Anarchy, State, and Utopia begins with introducing a theory of distributive justice called “the entitlement theory”. In a just world, one is entitled to one’s holdings if the holdings are either the original acquisition or there is a transfer of holdings. No one is entitled to their holdings other than by those two principles. However, because we do not live in a just world, Nozick incorporates a third principle: the rectification of injustice.
This theory was compelling throughout the first time reading it, which initially surprised me because I do not identify as a libertarian. Upon going over this theory again, I see that it is flawed. It seems that this theory is assuming that all unjust transactions will be detected, which