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Prof. Michael Sandel: Why the elites don’t deserve their status
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
I'm Challenging, Is There a Difference Between Deservingness and Merit?
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If we can detach spurious claims of deservingness from various positions and an admission schemes, then i have no objection to trying to find those who are best suited for this or that social role. The question is, do we heap upon the winners, not only income and wealth and and, but also honor and recognition and prestige and respect? That's what i'm challenging. Let me put it another way, if i need surgery, i want a well qualified surgeon to perform it. But merit, in that sense, is independent of the question of deservingness - freddy. I don't think that the successful need torment themselve to recognize the role of luck, or the indebtedness
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