Answer the following questions in not more than 150 words.What do equity and sustainability refer to within the concept of humandevelopment?
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Answer:
THE SUBSTANCE OF EQUALITY
Jeremy Waldron*
SPEAKING OF EQUALITY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RHETORICAL
FORCE OF "EQUALITY" IN MORAL AND LEGAL DISCOURSE. By Peter Westen. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1990. Pp. xxi,
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What do the following cases have in common?
(1) A previously undemocratic country is about to expand its
franchise so that all adult citizens have the right to vote. However, the
suggestion is made that, because people with a college education have a
greater knowledge of the world and deeper insight into public affairs,
their votes should count double in any election.
(2) The constitution of a country gives its citizens the right to assemble peacefully to petition the government for redress of grievances. But
the society is racially divided. When groups of white citizens assemble,
their demonstrations are undisturbed; when groups of black citizens assemble, the police always break up their meetings, ostensibly "in the interests of public order."
(3) In Israel, during recent Iraqi missile attacks, gas masks are issued to all citizens. But gas masks are not issued to those who live in the
"Occupied Territories" such as the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, even
though some Iraqi missiles have landed in these areas. When challenged, the government says there are not enough masks to go around.
(4) In an American city, only ten percent of recent recruits to the
police department are women. Partly this is because few women apply.
But a smaller proportion are admitted of those who do apply (than the
proportion of successful male applicants) because fewer women satisfy
the minimum height requirement