How strong a claim on my resources does a person in that society have?
Should I regard his relative poverty as something he has chosen, for religious reasons, and therefore as making no special demands on me, or should I regard the religious expenditure as externally compelled, and therefore consider his needs as more pressing than those of people in my own society? The general point is that if cultural differences have an impact on the way that we understand justice, then what justice requires across a culturally plural world becomes indeterminate.
How
strong
a claim
on my resources
does a person
in
that society have?