section_path: Theories/Distributive justice
section_name: Distributive justice
paragraph_text: Distributive justice
  
  Theories of distributive justice need to answer three questions:
  
  Distributive justice theorists generally do not answer questions of who has the right to enforce a particular favored distribution, while property rights theorists say that there is no "favored distribution". Rather, distribution should be based simply on whatever distribution results from lawful interactions or transactions (that is, transactions which are not illicit).