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Professors Adam Swift (University of Warwick) and Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison) are working together on developing a “liberal egalitarian theory of the family.” Swift, the ABC article notes, “has been conflicted for some time” about how the “playing field” becomes lopsided — because some parents do more for their children than others.

‘I got interested in this question because I was interested in equality of opportunity,’ he says.

‘I had done some work on social mobility and the evidence is overwhelmingly that the reason why children born to different families have very different chances in life is because of what happens in those families.’

Once he got thinking, Swift could see that the issue stretches well beyond the fact that some families can afford private schooling, nannies, tutors, and houses in good suburbs. Functional family interactions—from going to the cricket to reading bedtime stories—form a largely unseen but palpable fault line between families. The consequence is a gap in social mobility and equality that can last for generations.

So, what to do?

According to Swift, from a purely instrumental position the answer is straightforward.

‘One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family. If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.’

Although Swift invokes Plato and his advocacy of the abolition of family, he and Brighouse recognize that they can’t go that far.

Instead, they “sort[ed] out those activities that contribute to unnecessary inequality from those that don’t.” Like, for example, private schooling:

‘Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,’ he says. ‘It’s just not the case that in order for a family to realise these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school.’

In contrast, reading stories at bedtime, argues Swift, gives rise to acceptable familial relationship goods, even though this also bestows advantage.

“We could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to healthy family relationships,” Swift says, but doing away with reading to your kids would be “too big a hit at the core of family life.”

Boy, I guess we should all feel … lucky that Swift still allows us that “luxury?”

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So, there are two separate realities coexisting in the same space time. I have known this for decades and also a time would come when the frequencies would split apart. That time is now. It will come in stages and phases. The first phase is underway. Those leaving en mass are those who are not able, for whatever reason, to take advantage of the change in the paradigm we have entered. Call it a reverse rapture if you will. How will this happen? War, starvation, but 70% of Americans are double jabbed with the bioweapon. Let's say half of those have set themselves up for myocarditis and cancer... they will all be gone in the next ten years and maybe 50% in the next 5 years.... that is 100 million people just from the biomedical extermination operation.

Not complying with the ongoing extermination Democide might improve your chances of surviving the the Great Leaving. But no guarantee if you are already jabbed multiple times.....

To my jabbed fellows....Huck Finn once said, "You pay your money and you take you choice."

Or as the Templar Knight in Indiana Jones said, "He chose poorly."

Sorry.... I need to stay in a humor mode in the midst of a massive genocide most don't even understand what s going on, But if I were double jabbed + I would be on Bromelian Nattokinase, Lumbrokinase, Curcumin (tumeric) and lutein https://f1000research.com/articles/13-191/v2#referee-response-317253.

And then I would cross me fingers, pray and be the best person you can be.

PS: My book was just published Incurable Us: https://www.amazon.com/Incurable-Me-Research-Clinical-Practice/dp/1510774947/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.U5b-Avs9vWDhQLX2SRRC5lqq-pteCLVhhaKZMGTrxFEL2kJsYkAEyb-rVnv3Dt-dcc8uL-NZgNOYws-b7zkV_e_ZMciFZnLtoOOkOf58jIzQyaVdCCFCrY-q5B37H1CavtYSHkMyH2rZSO1vX0TpcwHfDz-uVgIPiiC9KOfWrfU6mq8lrRVD8CXoKDCfhFyuwTsH8cNlt4M5w7PvMHwoEVDbBA4TISC5qXzh0yyfzBY.5YbyWvvDfIU6OGVogXH2uTa_9LQffCNOkvEob1Tt2ag&dib_tag=se&keywords=incurable+us&qid=1726278282&sr=8-1

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