Analysis fosters empathy for discriminators

Because disadvantaged outcomes arise from people behaving sensibly within their social positions, the analysis suggests that, for some kinds of discriminatory behavior, one might counterfactually have behaved the same way in the other group's position (e.g., if socialized as a man, one would have learned to expect more), providing a basis for extending understanding to people who behave in discriminatory ways—though this does not lessen the moral wrongness of discrimination.