ABSTRACT
Fundamental to liberalism, according to Ronald Dworkin, is the principle that 'the government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life'. 1 People differ, he goes on, about what gives value to life: the scholar has one conception, the 'television-watching, beer-drinking citizen' has another. In distributing resources, the government must not favour one group's preferences over another's: opera must not be subsidised if dog-racing is not.
