ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the merits of a defeasible luck egalitarian principle. It examines the theoretical advantages and problems associated with luck egalitarianism. It also suggests that luck egalitarianism's relative popularity among egalitarians is attributable to its coherence with certain core intuitive judgments, such as the judgment that it is unfair for one's endowment of natural talents to determine one's life prospects, the judgment that it is fair for those who choose leisure over work to have less than others, and so on. The chapter analyses the major criticisms critics have launched against luck egalitarianism in recent years, such as the criticism that it expresses a disrespectful attitude towards those it would seek to assist, that it treats victims of bad option luck with excessive harshness, and so on. The chapter also argues that there are important benefits to understanding luck egalitarianism as a conception of a defeasible value.
