Metaphors aside, while this is a common (false) dichotomy, I was thinking recently whether a dichotomy is false just when it’s a restricted either-or rather than a both-and, but would it also be false when there is a third or fourth possibility.
Speaking of social justice, I’m a big fan of Paul when he writes about economic justice in terms of fairness and desert. As much as I can agree with Rawls, it’s the principle of desert that I would have liked to seen expanded upon… but then… what a dilemma!! And the need to transcend reason… and become reacquainted with the source of all wisdom.