ABSTRACT
One kind of egalitarianism aims at equality between different lives. It uses a measure of inequality and requires us to minimize the inequality recorded by the measure. A second kind of egalitarianism gives priority to helping those who are badly off. Nevertheless during a given time period the society contains great inequality, and in one sense this always remains true. Some people think the inequality is an injustice and should be mitigated. But according to the complete lives view it is not necessarily unjust. Future-directed egalitarianism takes time into account by supposing that there is a fundamental difference in moral importance between the past on the one hand and the present and future on the other. A method tells to minimize the sum total of inequality-at-a-time. The author calls it the "simultaneous segments view". It would not compensate for past inequality.
