Short-sightedness in Youth Welfare Provision: The Case of RSA in France
This paper reconstitutes and addresses critically the deontological and consequentialist arguments given by the French government to justify the denial of the national guaranteed minimum income support (RSA) to young people under 25 years old. The deontological arguments express a concern for distri...
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Tübingen University
2012-05-01
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| description | This paper reconstitutes and addresses critically the deontological and consequentialist arguments given by the French government to justify the denial of the national guaranteed minimum income support (RSA) to young people under 25 years old. The deontological arguments express a concern for distributive justice and suggest that young people do not deserve income support. The consequentialist arguments, on the other hand, emphasise social efficiency: they draw on the alleged negative outcomes that the extension of income support to young people would bring about. After analysing each argument, this paper concludes that the denial of RSA to young people is an illegitimate discrimination. It then proposes that we understand our duties towards young people through an account of prudence that reconciles both (1) concerns of distributive justice with concerns for social efficiency and (2) concerns for inter- and intragenerational justices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a20e5d2af504026a630911cfc9dc9a42024-04-23T11:07:34ZengTübingen UniversityIntergenerational Justice Review2190-63352012-05-011Short-sightedness in Youth Welfare Provision: The Case of RSA in FranceJuliana Bidadanure0University of York, School of Politics, Economics and PhilosophyThis paper reconstitutes and addresses critically the deontological and consequentialist arguments given by the French government to justify the denial of the national guaranteed minimum income support (RSA) to young people under 25 years old. The deontological arguments express a concern for distributive justice and suggest that young people do not deserve income support. The consequentialist arguments, on the other hand, emphasise social efficiency: they draw on the alleged negative outcomes that the extension of income support to young people would bring about. After analysing each argument, this paper concludes that the denial of RSA to young people is an illegitimate discrimination. It then proposes that we understand our duties towards young people through an account of prudence that reconciles both (1) concerns of distributive justice with concerns for social efficiency and (2) concerns for inter- and intragenerational justices.https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/462 |
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| title | Short-sightedness in Youth Welfare Provision: The Case of RSA in France |
| title_full | Short-sightedness in Youth Welfare Provision: The Case of RSA in France |
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| title_short | Short-sightedness in Youth Welfare Provision: The Case of RSA in France |
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