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01/20/2008: "Liberals should not oppose genetic inequality"

This is an extremely atypical liberal argument. If you tell the typical liberal that the poor people are poor because they are born with bad genes, the liberal will get pissed at you. Yet this is exactly what Rawls is saying, that poor people are poor because of their genes.

Liberals, by denying that there are genetic differences in intelligence and other beneficial attributes, are destroying the most powerful argument in favor of distributive justice. Even worse, liberals have also denied equality of opportunity to smart people who have the misfortune of being born to lower class parents. Liberals see the smart prole kid as not worthy of special help, because he’s already doing so much better than the prole kids who aren’t reading at grade level. Liberals would rather waste money trying to get kids with below average intelligence to somehow magically become smart enough to attend college. Yet it’s the smart prole kid who is most in need of special help so he can achieve what he might if he were born to upper middle class parents.

[ No one is equal. Why try to raise the lowered when we could raise the higher to new heights? ]

http://www.halfsigma.com/2008/01/john-rawls-and.html