He would like to produce prosthetics that can emulate biological limbs so precisely that they ensure that the likes of Mr Pistorius are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged.Although Mr Pistorius's unpowered prosthetics do not provide any metabolic advantage, there is no reason why powered prosthetics, or exoskeletons worn by able-bodied people, cannot do so.
Giving the less advantaged a leg up means beginning with pre-school and includes retraining for the less skilled.
In the Himalayas, village life hard at the best of times deteriorates into chaos and penury even for the advantaged when a Nepalese insurgency takes over the town.
Trade diversion means that an alteration in trade barriers has artifically advantaged a higher cost producer within the agreement over a lower cost producer outside the agreement.
Few organisations willingly talk about the upsides of climate change — though it is inevitable that some people and even some countries will be advantaged by the effects of global warming, even if the overall global impact is vastly more detrimental.
By an increase of trade, whether it be the import of corn or any other article, the producers here can only be advantaged.
Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi).
Advantaged as he is, homo economicus can safely accept his desires as given and proceed without ado to orchestrate a plan to satisfy them.
Rawls defines "least advantaged" as those with the least share of the primary goods of income and wealth, and powers and positions of office.
(That is, strategically advantaged players offered larger profit splits to strategically disadvantaged ones than was necessary to induce agreement to their offers).
The "deeper idea of reciprocity" (JF 124) implicit in the difference principle has just the opposite tendencies: the more advantaged may not gain at any point unless their gains benefit the least advantaged and benefit them maximally, better than any alternative arrangement of institutions.
