So there is simply no possible way in Heaven or Earth that I could be offering an advance in our understanding of justice? These days especially, don't we need to give consideration to any and every new idea for the betterment of society?Arrogance is our greatest enemy: to proffer an new idea is not arrogant, to reject one without giving it serious consideration is.

I’m 67 years old. I have spent my adult life reading and studying, inside Academia and outside it, history, philosophy, and economics while developing these ideas. I’m beyond weary.

The ancients based justice on beliefs about ‘the good life’. Again, the ethic of real justice follows directly from observation within the material world that you and I believe God created. Moreover, it accords with the requirement of respect for one another that you expressed in your article. It makes that requirement concrete, with concrete outcomes for society, especially outcomes related to the economy.

This is, to my mind, what the true conservative position is these days: using rationality to preserve Liberal society, i.e. democracy and the rule of law with liberty (including matters of conscience) as its primary concern. (Everyone seems to be intent on limiting the liberty of others in matters of conscience wherever it conflicts with their own.) Applied to the economy, real justice eliminates poverty without redistributing anything — among other good outcomes.