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Why compensate the naturally handicapped

Herbert Spiegelberg

pp. 231-274

When the inability to compete is not due to invidious past discrimination of the social system but to natural inequalities, the accident of birth, the luck of the draw —however one wishes to put this— what is required by the equalitarian commitment to equal rights?… In the long run the answer to this question may be far more significant for social justice than the answer to the question of compensation for past invidious discrimination.179

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4337-7_13

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Spiegelberg, H. (1986). Why compensate the naturally handicapped, in Steppingstones toward an ethics for fellow existers, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 231-274.

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