Equal Opportunity, Responsibility, and Personal Identity
According to the 'starting-gate' interpretation of equality of opportunity, individuals who enjoy equal starts can legitimately become unequal to the extent that their differences derive from choices for which they can be held responsible. There can be no coercive transfers of resources in...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2018]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 825-839 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics NCC Social ethics VA Philosophy |
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equality of opportunity
B Agency B Basic equality B Responsibility B Freedom B Personal Identity |
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| 520 | |a According to the 'starting-gate' interpretation of equality of opportunity, individuals who enjoy equal starts can legitimately become unequal to the extent that their differences derive from choices for which they can be held responsible. There can be no coercive transfers of resources in favour of individuals who disregarded their own futures, and no limits on the right of an individual to distribute resources intrapersonally. This paper assesses two ways in which advocates of equality of opportunity might depart from the starting-gate interpretation. The first involves limiting the degree to which people are liable to pay the costs of their past choices. The second involves limiting their initial opportunities so as to prevent certain risky or apparently short-sighted choices. The paper compares these alternatives in terms of their compatibility with a particular conception of persons as morally equal and temporally extended. It constructs this conception by combining reductionist premises about personal identity with the premise that our status as equals is based on the fundamental requirement of opacity respect. Two conclusions about equality of opportunity are shown to follow from this conception of persons as morally equal and temporally extended: the first is that an individual's liability to pay the costs of her past choices does not diminish over time; the second is that the individual's initial scope of choice, in bringing about intrapersonal distributions between her current and future selves, can nevertheless be permissibly limited. The two conclusions are consistent, and the second allows for departures from starting-gate equality of opportunity. | ||
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