ABSTRACT
In Nagel's article 'Equality', he imagines that he has two children, one healthy and happy, the other suffering from some painful handicap. Nagel writes: "This is a difficult choice on any view. To make it a test for the value of equality, I want to suppose that the case has the following feature: the gain to the first child of moving to the suburb is substantially greater than the gain to the second child of moving to the city". Nagel, and others, make a stronger claim. On their view, it is more urgent to help these people even if they are harder to help. While Utilitarians claim that we should give these people priority when, and because, we can help them more, this view claims that we should give them priority, even when we can help them less. On the Priority View, there is no ground for such doubts. This view naturally has universal scope.
