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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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Who cuts up the food gets last pick?
1) What does "who cuts up the food gets last pick" mean?
Does it mean "one who cuts up the holiday cake is the last one to get his share (of the cake) - one who is the last to be benefited - who risks losing his benefit"?
2) What does "Inuit system" mean?
Context:
whole point is that it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent
person today would come up with. Not everybody would home in
on exactly the same list of ten. The philosopher John Rawls might
include something like the following: 'Always devise your rules as
if you didn't know whether you were going be at the top or the
bottom of the pecking order.' An alleged Inuit system for sharing
out food is a practical example of the Rawls principle: the
individual who cuts up the food gets last pick.
Does it mean "one who cuts up the holiday cake is the last one to get his share (of the cake) - one who is the last to be benefited - who risks losing his benefit"?
2) What does "Inuit system" mean?
Context:
whole point is that it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent
person today would come up with. Not everybody would home in
on exactly the same list of ten. The philosopher John Rawls might
include something like the following: 'Always devise your rules as
if you didn't know whether you were going be at the top or the
bottom of the pecking order.' An alleged Inuit system for sharing
out food is a practical example of the Rawls principle: the
individual who cuts up the food gets last pick.
Top answer
SweetFreedom What does "Inuit system" mean? A system devised and used by the Inuit people, native people who live in northern North America. SweetFreedom What does "who cuts up the food gets last pick" mean?
- SweetFreedom What does "Inuit system" mean?
- A system devised and used by the Inuit people, native people who live in northern North America.
- SweetFreedom What does "who cuts up the food gets last pick" mean?
- Exactly what it says.
- The person who cuts up the food (to serve to the whole community of people who are going to eat together) waits for everyone else to choose what food they would like to eat before he selects his own food.
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SweetFreedomWhat does "Inuit system" mean?A system devised and used by the Inuit people, native people who live in northern North America.
SweetFreedomWhat does "who cuts up the food gets last pick" mean?Exactly what it says. The person who cuts up the food (to serve to the whole community of people who are going to eat t
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