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If my account of philanthropic giving as a duty of reparative justice succeeds, important moral and political implications follow. First, at least up to a significant threshold, affluent donors should, as a matter of moral duty, exercise no personal discretion when deciding how to give and to whom. Indeed, they should regard their donations as a way of returning to others what is rightfully their own. Second, public officials should refrain from encouraging personal discretion through public discourse and should design tax incentives to private giving in a way that minimizes this discretion.
Philanthropy in Democratic Societies
Rob Reich;Lucy Bernholz;Chiara Cordelli
In the words of bestselling author Stephen Cowey, while __we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose their consequences.__
100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late
Dellanna, Luca
Bayesian statistics, of which classical statistics are a special case, require a “prior” (that is, a probability distribution that captures our initial beliefs), and provide a method for revising the prior in the light of new information. Experience is a natural source of prior beliefs.
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
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