The Diversity of Objections to Inequality
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goal-conformity to a certain pattern-to which special moral value is auached.2 I will begin by distinguishing what seem to me to be the fundamental moral reasons lying behind our objections to various forms of inequality. I will then illustrate these ideas by showing how they figure in various ways in Rawls's views about distributive justice. Finally, I will return to examine one of these values-the one which seems the most purely egalitarian-in more detail. Let me tum, then, to an enumeration of our reasons for finding the pursuit of equality a compelling political goal.
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