Or to restate, equality of opportunity and equality of... "ability" (in the sense of Phelps-ian genetic uniqueness) get conflated. As though admitting the latte

Or to restate, equality of opportunity and equality of... "ability" (in the sense of Phelps-ian genetic uniqueness) get conflated. As though admitting the latter differs somehow effects the righteousness of the former as a goal. Agree that genetics v activism is going to get very ugly here. We're already seeing it in health insurance: that's the essence of the pre-existing condition debate. Should people bear the cost or accrue the benefit of their uniqueness, or should we share them as a community?