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Luck/Choice Distinction Bears Too Much Weight

Luck egalitarianism, which permits only inequalities people deserve or are responsible for while neutralizing inequalities arising from pure luck, rests on a distinction between luck-based and choice-based outcomes that is being asked to bear far too much weight.

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Elizabeth Anderson

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I think in the end, the distinction that luck egalitarians draw between outcomes that are due to luck and outcomes that are due to our choices for which we're responsible, that is a distinction that's being asked to bear far too much weight.

Source

139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and IdeologySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:50 AM

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