ABSTRACT
Discrimination is an important topic. Many disadvantages and disrespectful forms of treatment endured by individuals result from or amount to discrimination. Not surprisingly, therefore, at least since the Civil Rights movement in the US, discrimination is often in the forefront when individuals complain about being unjustly worse off than others, or about being unjustly treated. The concept of intersectionality was introduced to describe the situation of black women. The distinction between views according to which discrimination is non-instrumentally wrong and views according to which it is only instrumentally wrong is often conflated with the distinction between views according to which discrimination is very wrong, morally speaking, and views according to which discrimination is wrong, but not very wrong. Richard Arneson explores an account of wrongness of discrimination that can be seen as a genus for the previous account, the harm-based account.
