The general question of how to reconcile the demands of equal respect and distributive fairness has taken center-stage in a recent debate over the expressive significance of different measures to remediate the disadvantages associated with disability.
Should we restrict our understanding of equality of opportunity to those standard deficiencies in the social structure (e.g., sexism, racism) that inhibit people from enjoying opportunities for schooling, employment, housing, etc.? Or should we expand the demands of equal opportunity under the aegis of the new genetics to include the possession of a normal (or perhaps enhanced) human genome?
In the case of disability as well as religion, how much additional provision is required is indeterminate, not for lack of a complete theory of justice to specify the amount or proportion, but because the demands of equal respect are indeterminate.
Under that guarantee, if a law treats some people differently than others, it ordinarily will satisfy the demands of equal protection if "it bears even a rational relation to some legitimate end".
This effect was further illustrated when networks were challenged with the simplest demand of OLP equal 2. Increasing network from 4 to 19, which corresponds to a 15-fold increase in the number of evolvable weights (see Methods), had not effect on EC and PCPC (p = 0.22).
In October 2002, Dr. Paige called state education officials who were setting standards that he considered insufficiently demanding "enemies of equal justice and equal opportunity".
Miller thinks that this makes sense, because liberal democracies must uphold "quite demanding standards of equal treatment for all who reside within their borders".
The natural conclusion of the feminist demand for equal rights in the workplace, has to be, he said, the male demand for a fair share of parenting.
The ground he chose for his petition for review was that the Commission had denied what it had interpreted as his original demand for equal time for rebuttal of cigarette commercials and had granted only "a significant amount of time".
