Full Idea
Equality should enter into the very formation of our preferences. ....Prejudiced and selfish preferences should be excluded from the start, for they already reflect a failure to show equal consideration.
Gist of Idea
We shouldn't endorse preferences which reject equality, and show prejudice and selfishness
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn) [1990], 2.5.b)
Book Reference
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' [OUP 1992], p.42
A Reaction
This is meant to block utilitarian summing of preferences like racism, but it feels like a rather desperate attempt to get righteous liberal values in at the beginning, where they can't be questioned. How can you justify equal respect and treatment?