Episode 155: David Schmidtz on Equality and Justice
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The Egalitarian Side of Humanitarianism
"We seem to want to chase both sides of this equation all the way," he says. "I don't know why you would be fixed on wanting to grow up to be a surgeon." The idea that people can achieve excellence, but not in surgery, is an aristocratic one,. He adds: "A society muddles through and it has what it has"
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