If someone deserves a plum new project or a promotion, you have to go get it for them.
We may generalize from these cases and conclude that all cases of desert are like this: if someone deserves something, D, on some basis, DB, then he or she is responsible for having DB.
Some have said that if someone deserves something, D, in virtue of having some desert base, DB, then the deserving one must be responsible for having DB (see, for example, Rawls 1971; Rachels 1978; Sadurski 1985).
The multiplier view, understood this way, still faces objections: it entails, for example, that if someone deserves to suffer, then no matter how bad his life is (how negative his welfare level), it would always be better for him to suffer more (have an even more negative welfare level).
Others have suggested what may be called "the Temporality Principle": if someone deserves something, D, in virtue of having a certain desert base, DB, then he or she must already have DB at the time he or she begins to deserve D (See, for example, Rachels 1978; Kleinig 1971; Sadurski 1985).
If someone deserves the title "the supernanny of techno," it's definitely this guy. .
"So it speaks volumes for Dan and what he's about, really and if someone deserved it, he certainly did".
Someone deserves a thank-you.
"If someone doesn't deserve it, they don't deserve it.
"I guess if someone says they deserve to be on the team like she did -- at least that's what I read, I wasn't in her interviews -- then I guess people assume she'll be on it," said Dawes, who began her comeback in April and placed seventh in the overall competition.
A closer look at Humphries, though, reveals someone who deserves, if not a more featured role in this circus, then certainly a more nuanced one.
