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Major question of the book:

Does a just society seek to promote the virtue of its citizens

Or should law be neutral toward competing conceptions of virtue, so that citizens can be free to choose for themselves the best way to live

Starting example being takes for and against Florida’s price gouging laws in the wake of Hurricane Charley

Would not recommend unless overthinking is a hobby

Noting Pgs 47-48 for “The Most Photographed Barn in America” analysis of selection from Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Wallace completes a thorough and complex analysis of meta-cognition and media, but his selection here also warns against over intellectualization. Murray participates as a genuine exercise of observation and commentary, but in doing so participates in the “…accumulation of nameless energies.”