Many egalitarians incorporate a concern for interpersonal welfare inequality as part of their favored axiology – that is, they take it to be a bad-making feature of outcomes. It is natural to think that, if inequality is in this sense a bad, it is an impersonal bad (one that makes an outcome worse, while not in itself being worse for any person). This natural thought has been challenged. Some writers claim that egalitarian judgments can be accommodated by adopting an expanded view of a person's good, according to which being worse off than others is one of the factors that, in itself, makes one's life go worse. The putatively impersonal bad of inequality is thereby “dispersed” among individuals. I argue that this dispersion strategy fails. In a slogan: if you care about inequality, do not disperse it.

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不平等：不要分散

许多平等主义者将对人际福利不平等的关注作为他们偏爱的价值论的一部分——也就是说，他们认为这是结果的不良特征。很自然地认为，如果不平等在这个意义上是一种坏事，那么它就是一种非个人的坏事（它会使结果变得更糟，而其本身对任何人都没有更糟）。这种自然的想法受到了挑战。一些作家声称，可以通过对一个人的利益采取更广泛的观点来适应平等主义的判断，根据这种观点，比其他人的境况更差本身就是使一个人的生活变得更糟的因素之一。因此，不平等的非个人坏处被“分散”在个人之间。我认为这种分散策略失败了。一句口号：如果你关心不平等，就不要驱散它。