ABSTRACT
The central topic for this book is the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups. Broadly speaking I am concerned with two sub-issues.
First, why do we feel so much more strongly about discrimination on grounds of race and sex than discrimination on other grounds? Are we right to think that discrimination based on these characteristics is especially invidious? Second, and related to this, what should we think about ‘rational discrimination’ – ‘discrimination’ which is based on sound statistics?
