I don’t think that equality in itself is valuable. We should care about inequalities, but we shouldn’t try to deal with them by making people more equal; rather, we should help those who are worse off. In philosophical terms, that makes me a prioritarian rather than an egalitarian. A prioritarian holds that a unit of benefit has more value when it goes to a worse off person, and the worse off the person is, the greater its value; but she does not think it’s worth pursuing equality for its own sake.
What’s Fair About Disability, Rationing Health Care, Ageing and Overpopulation?
Interview with Greg Bognar by Richard Marshall in 3:AM Magazine.
Senast uppdaterad:
30 juli 2018
Webbredaktör:
Daniel Ramöller
Sidansvarig: Department of Philosophy