Carl Knight has written an interesting and penetrating book about the strand of distributive justice commonly referred to as luck egalitarianism. While luck egalitarianism appears in different guises, the book is concerned specifically with the view that'... inequalities are justified only insofar as they reflect differential exercises of responsibility, and equalities only insofar as they reflect equivalent such exercises' (230). In short, luck egalitarianism is the happy union of two plausible and forceful ideas; egalitarianism and responsibilitarianism.
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