When Bad Things Happen to Good People Luck Egalitarianism and Costly Rescues

By Thaysen, Jens Damgaard, Brøgger Albertsen. 2016

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Fairness in Machine Learning: Lessons from Political Philosophy (2017, background): “This is what Thayson and Albertson call a ‘costly rescue’ Thaysen and Albertsen (2017); on their view, luck egalitarianism should only be sensitive to responsibility for creating advantages and disadvantages – not to responsibility for distributing them.”
On the apparent conflict between individual and group fairness (2019, background): “…the notion of a ‘luck’/’choice’ distinction, pointing out that certain disadvantages may be the result of free and informed choices, but for which the chooser should not be left signiﬁcantly worse oﬀ as a result, such as choosing to forgo a more lucrative career in order to help others [2, 47].”