ABSTRACT
In his article ‘Equality’, Nagel imagines that he has two children, one healthy and happy, the other suffering from some painful handicap. Nagel’s family could either move to a city where the second child could receive special treatment, or move to a suburb where the first child would flourish. 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.
