“Utilitarianism is the consequence of extending to society the principle of choice for one man, and then, to make this extension work, conflating all persons into one. ... Utilitarianism does not take seriously the distinction between persons."

"Now suppose that Wilt Chamberlain is greatly in demand by basketball teams, being a great gate attraction. … In each home game, twenty‐​five cents from the price of each ticket of admission goes to him. ... The season starts, and people cheerfully attend his team’s games; they buy their tickets, each time dropping a separate twenty‐​five cents of their admission price into a special box with Chamberlain’s name on it. They are excited about seeing him play; it is worth the total admission price to them. Let us suppose that in one season one million persons attend his home games, and Wilt Chamberlain winds up with $250,000, a much larger sum than the average income and larger even than anyone else has. Is he entitled to this income? ... If the people were entitled to dispose of their resources to which they were entitled, didn't this include their being entitled to give it to ... Wilt Chamberlain? Can anyone else complain on grounds of justice?

The general point illustrated by the Wilt Chamberlain example ... is that no distributional patterned principle of justice can be continuously realized without continuous interference with people's lives."