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Discover LudwigThe phrase "above decent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is better than just decent, indicating a level of quality that exceeds the average standard.
Example: "The restaurant's food was above decent, making it a pleasant surprise for our dining experience."
Alternatives: "better than decent" or "fairly good".
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Corbyn said the Grenfell Tower fire was "an indictment not just of decades of failed housing policies and privatisation and the yawning inequality in one of the wealthiest boroughs and cities in the world; it is also a damning indictment of a whole outlook which values council tax refunds for the wealthy above decent provision for all and which has contempt for working class communities".
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If they want to buy a home, they'll also need a good credit score (generally above 650), decent household income and a plan to stay in the home for several years.
However, it says nothing about inequality of capabilities of those individuals above the decent genetic minimum.
This second principle is prioritarian and supposedly deals with the problem of inequality of capabilities of individuals above the decent genetic minimum.
Fourth, above the decent welfare minimum, it is unlikely that access to the some broader insurance package is prudent for all people to buy.
Although some (Lenox 1995) might argue that such intervention is still a form of enhancement (as indeed all medicine is), the Senian perspective can allow it only if it can bring people above a decent minimum of basic capability deprivation.
Natural primary goods are to be distributed so as to (contribute the heredity bases of crucial human functioning that) bring individual off-spring up above a decent minimum of internal basic capability deprivation.
Differences across types of insurance coverage (above the decent basic minimum level) that the use-per-need view would judge problematic might be dismissed as preference differences by the modified market view.
According to (Fox 2007) the first principle of the Senian perspective is the following: 1) Natural primary goods are to be distributed so as to (contribute the heredity bases of crucial human functioning that) bring individual off-spring up above a decent minimum of internal basic capability deprivation. .
There are two main reasons for this: first, it is unclear which primary goods ought to be distributed to the least advantaged after the point at which everyone has been brought above a decent genetic minimum; second, Fox tries to bring together the Rawlsian and the Senian perspectives without acknowledging that each of these perspectives has a its own unique currency of justice.
We write jokes for a living, and every once in awhile, if we're lucky, we get someone to say "hum, I never thought of it that way". And furthermore, at no point, ever, is it our job to put comedy and satire above being decent human beings.
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