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    Deserving something does not always require that a favora... — Carmelics
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    Deserving something does not always require that a favorable or unfavorable appraising attitude be fitting toward the deserving party.

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    • 1.Rawls distinguishes pre-institutional desert from justice-based entitlements, showing desert can arise from morally neutral facts like need or status.
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    • 2.Desert bases can be non-evaluative properties (e.g., being a human, being injured) that ground claims without implying any praiseworthy or blameworthy conduct.
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    • 3.If desert required a fitting appraising attitude, infants and non-agents could never deserve anything, which contradicts robust intuitions about basic welfare rights.
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    • 1.Feinberg's analysis distinguishes desert from moral worth: one can deserve compensation for misfortune without the misfortune reflecting on one's character.
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    • 2.Corrective justice traditions from Aristotle onward treat rectificatory desert as responsive to disturbance of a baseline, not to the victim's virtue or vice.
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    • 1.An abandoned sick child deserves medical care and nurturance in virtue of her need.
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    • 2.The child's sickness does not make it appropriate for onlookers to admire or condemn the child.
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    • 3.Neither a positive nor a negative appraising attitude is called for toward the sick child.
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    Furthermore, it appears that there are cases in which a person deserves something but in which no appraising attitude seems to be fitting. Suppose, for example, that an abandoned child is in need of medical care and nurturance. The fact that the child is sick does not make it appropriate for onlookers to admire her or to condemn her. It does not call for any “positive” or “negative” appraising attitude. Nevertheless, the claim that the child deserves medical care and nurturance in virtue of her
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