How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 liberal-egalitarian puzzle → how can fairness permit any inequality R2 discrimination just only if it lifts the least advantaged → inequality as instrument of equality
Body flow
TTR moral arbitrariness of talent / birth → Difference Principle = democratic equality → not charity but reciprocity → Barry's chain principle → forms: affirmative action, taxation, welfare, reservations → liberty lexically prior → sits between socialism and libertarianism
Counter-view
Nozick (talents as common assets, entitlement violated) vs Sen (primary goods miss capability)
Conclusion routes
rR! inequality conditional on the good of the worst-off → corrective for arbitrary disadvantage R2 discrimination defensible only as correction → makes liberalism more humane
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
