Good essay. A teaser:
"Egalitarian liberals [...] argue that taking
individualism and merit seriously means eliminating morally arbitrary
inequities that enable many to get ahead due to advantages for which
they can take no credit."
"Rawls [...] argued from a liberal standpoint that
individual merit was a deeply ambiguous and heavily mythologized
principle which discriminated against disadvantaged individuals for 'morally arbitrary reasons' which had little to do with merit. Therefore
a 'fair' liberal society would adopt robust redistributive policies to
compensate for the moral arbitrariness in the distribution of goods."
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