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Full Idea
The difference principle does not make any distinction between chosen and unchosen inequalities, ....but the difference principle requires that some people subsidise the costs of other people's choices.
Gist of Idea
The difference principles says we must subsidise the costs of other people's choices
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn) [1990], 3.3.b.2)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' [OUP 1992], p.75
A Reaction
We do this in education, allowing people to study things in which we can see little point. We subsidise public ceremonies which strike us as ridiculous.
Related Idea
Idea 18631 All desirable social features should be equal, unless inequality favours the disadvantaged [Rawls]