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David Benatar on Affirmative Action

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Proxies in Justice

"We have much better proxies than race for determining who is and isn't disadvantaged," he says. "It seems to me like in practice, it's going to be very difficult to standardize that formula" He asks: Is the merit of a student greater given their circumstance of disadvantage or is it the injustice that counts? And then my third objection is why is it the university that's responsible for rectifying that injustice?"

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