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Tocqueville, equality, and social justice

Here’s an interesting presentation from a contemporary social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, that illustrates some of the problems Tocqueville describes in the American tendency to think about equality in the lens of ‘the indefinite perfectability of man.’ Do you agree with Haidt’s analysis of how the social justice emphasis on equality of outcomes can produce problems? Why or why not?

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