let us look a little more closely at the attack on social justice. Critics such as the Austrian economist-cum-philosopher Friedrich hayek argued that there was a fundamental error involved even in talking about social justice in the first place. according to hayek, justice is fundamentally a property o individual actions: an action is unjust when it violates a general rule that a society has put in place to allow its members to cooperate with one another-so, for instance, theft is unjust because it violates a rule protecting property. but if we look at home resources-money , property, employment opportunities, and so forth-are distributed acroos a society, we cannot describe this distribution as either just or unjust, since it results not from the actions or decisions o a single agent, but form the actions s and decisions o millions o separate people, none off whom intended to create this or any other distributive outcom in particular.