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    Distributional issues such as egalitarian evaluation requ... — Carmelics
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    Distributional issues such as egalitarian evaluation require interpersonal comparisons of well-being, which can be understood in terms of utilities.

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    • 1.Egalitarian evaluation of allocations requires determining who the worst-off individuals are.
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    • 2.Determining who is worst-off requires comparing levels of well-being across individuals.
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    • 3.Utility functions provide a natural framework for expressing such interpersonal comparisons.
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    • 1.Sen's capability approach demonstrates that well-being comparisons require evaluating what people can do and be, not merely their utility levels.
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    • 2.Utility functions systematically fail to capture adaptive preferences, where oppressed individuals adjust desires to constrained circumstances.
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    • 3.Egalitarian evaluation grounded in utilities therefore obscures rather than reveals genuine distributive injustice.
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    • 1.Rawls's veil of ignorance argument establishes that just distributive principles must be chosen without knowledge of interpersonal utility comparisons.
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    • 2.If interpersonal utility comparisons were foundational to egalitarian evaluation, Rawls's difference principle would require cardinal utility data it deliberately excludes.
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    • 3.Therefore, robust egalitarian frameworks like Rawlsian justice are logically independent of interpersonal utility comparisons.
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    Sen (1970a) proposes a further generalization of the social choice framework, by permitting consideration of information about individual utility functions, not only preferences. This enlargement is motivated by the impossibility theorem, but also by the ethical relevance of various kinds of data. Distributional issues obviously require interpersonal comparisons of well-being. For instance, an egalitarian evaluation of allocations needs a determination of who the worst-off are. It is tempting to
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