PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: International Inequality, Counterargument, Externality
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Fundamental fairness and acceptable inequality: what is equity, heart of what equity is: fundamental fairness and acceptable inequality. Shue believes that everyone in every culture has some kind of natural understanding of when an arrangement is fair or unfairly biased towards some party. Shue disagrees: a fair arrangement is not necessarily the same thing as an equal arrangement. Shue presents three different ways of justifying inequality: three ways of justifying inequality: Justifications of unequal burdens with the intentions of preventing exiting inequalities by becoming worse through any infliction of an unfair additional advantage upon those at the bottom. Some nations at the top and some at the bottom; burdening people at the top prevent current inequalities from worsening the inequality experienced by those at the bottom: preventative measure. Justify a guaranteed minimum intended to prevent the existing inequality from becoming worse through any infliction of an unfair additional advantage upon those at the bottom.
