Beyond the worst off

Question 1

What is the goal of moving beyond the worst-off?

Answer 1

Appreciate and embrace the many ways that people are different from each other. Justice becomes a matter of engendering trust among people with diverse characteristics. Justice is also a matter of promotion, equal opportunity and human flourishing. By adapting this approach to justice, society can solve the problems arising from differences among people.
KEY: Justice and embracing differences / equal opportunity

Question 2

How can Silvers and Francis relate to the disabilities act?

Answer 2

The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) is important because these people constantly encounter various forms of discrimination and needed to be addressed

Question 3

What is the dilemma of difference? Who speaks on it?

Answer 3

Treating people differently → emphasizing their differences, stigmatizing / hindering them on that basis? Minnows idea

Question 4

What is Minnows solution to the dilemma of difference?

Answer 4

“Social relations” approach
Interaction between outliers and not
Practical solution, but Francis and Silvers say that it lacks normative framework

Question 5

How does Minnows idea of the dilemma of difference relate to Hartleys

Answer 5

Connections to role of engagement in social cooperation, but again, is it enough?

Question 6

What are the 3 strategies of justice?

Answer 6

Differences should be denied
Differences should be mitigated
Differences should be embraced

Question 7

What is mitigation difference?

Answer 7

Type 1: pretextual or subterfuges (ex: sex, gender, disability)
Type 2: disadvantage real differences
“Value deficient” via various theories of justice

Question 8

What is an outlier?

Answer 8

person or thing that lives or is located outside of, the locus or productive activity, or extreme deviation from the mean

Question 9

What is the worse-off?

Answer 9

focuses on remedying disadvantage attributable to real biological or real social lack, or to inadequacies in the interaction of biological and social processes

Question 10

What are some mistakes to the worse-off?

Answer 10

= different ways in which people can be commensurable
= policy must be exclusively pursue either biological or instead social change