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This would be a case in which someone deserves something that is neither "positive" nor "negative".
A typical desert claim is a claim to the effect that someone deserves something from someone on some basis.
However, there are cases in which someone deserves something that is neither good nor bad, neither a benefit nor a burden.
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.
They seem to be concerned with a question about what explains the fact that when someone deserves something, it is obligatory for others to provide it, or good that it be provided.
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).
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You would think a state as large as New York could find someone who deserves something on his or her own.
David Dolinko (1991) points out that there is a difference between someone morally deserving something and others having a right to give it to her.
It deserves something nobler.
Ms. Murphy deserves something better.
"It deserves something really special".
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