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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? | In the series finale, Harvard professor Michael Sandel leads a discussion on same-sex marriage and the link between law and morality. If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how should we deal with the fact that people hold different ideas and conceptions of what is good? Students address this question in a heated debate about whether same-sex marriage should be legal.Coming up on WGBH
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