Unreasonableness and Rights: On Quong’s Liberalism without Perfection

This article argues that Quong's Liberalism without Perfection errs in claiming that the grounds for enforceably prohibiting unreasonable conduct are that it is unrea- sonable. What grounds that prohibition is, rather, that such conduct violates in- dependently determined distributively just rights. Political liberalism presupposes a theory of distributive justice.