{"id":990,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/equality-means-fair-treatment-rather-than-equal-treatment-comment-upsc-psir-2018-0403\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:13","slug":"equality-means-fair-treatment-rather-than-equal-treatment-comment-upsc-psir-2018-0403","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/equality-means-fair-treatment-rather-than-equal-treatment-comment-upsc-psir-2018-0403\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality means fair treatment rather than equal treatment. Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 equal moral worth, not sameness \u2192 Aristotle: equals equally, unequals unequally R2 two readings of equality \u2192 same rule for all vs treatment by circumstance \/ need<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">equal treatment = sameness in law (Nozick \u2192 redistribution as rights- violation) \u2192 but unequal starting points \u2192 Dalits \/ Blacks \/ women \/ disabled \u2192 identical rule entrenches advantage \u2192 Tawney pike-minnows \u2192 fair treatment corrects \u2192 differential treatment by need \/ disadvantage \u2192 Rawls difference principle \u2192 Sen resources vs functionings \u2192 protective discrimination \/ affirmative action<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Nozick: differential treatment violates rights \u2192 answer: not arbitrary, bounded, only to protect the weakest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 identical treatment of unequals reproduces inequality \u2192 equality = fair treatment R2 fair treatment secures equal worth in moral + material sense \u2192 distributive equality<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[43],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[49],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-990","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-43","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-equality","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/990\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}