LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Child Protection
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Review from last week: marshals idea that the life of society is enriched when everyone in the society has the same rights. If you make everyone share in the same status and make sure that everyone starts in the same place, that that will lead to a better kind of society than the society that we see now. Equality of status is more important than equality of income: the (cid:374)e(cid:449) right argues that (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e should get so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g for (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g. if (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to (cid:449)ork, the(cid:374) (cid:455)ou should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e given welfare. You need to ensure however, that there are jobs for these people to get. We are in a situation where the doors of opportunity are closed for most people: policies like workfare and universal social services. The tension between the idea that the legal set of rights that goes along with citizenship and the actual realization of those rights.