Global Luck Egalitarianism
Global luck egalitarianism is a view about distributive justice at the global level associated with cosmopolitan moral theory. It starts from the basic intuition that it is a bad thing for some people to be worse off than others through no fault of their own, and applies this across borders. Global luck egalitarians characteristically believe that moral agents may have duties to mitigate the brute luck of distant others. Proponents of this school of thought are amongst others Simon Caney and arguably Charles Beitz.
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