Such inexpediency would not have served the requirements of distributive justice.

For people to have trust in the organisation as a whole, it needs to have an important feature - procedural and distributive justice.

So, there's a question, if you will, of political justice, and a question of distributive justice.

Some writers have distinguished between various principles or criteria of distributive justice: need, equity, contribution, ability to pay, patient effort and merit.

At the limit, though, this commitment to distributive justice could lead to a 'quite inhuman society' in which persons were treated merely as locations of talents and abilities.