Is India pursuing equality too zealously in this case, risking too much change too quickly, foisting top-down legislation upon traditions that will resist it and do not recognize its legitimacy?  In pursuing (or at least legislating it), do you also risk less equality?

Via Andrew Sullivan, a roundup of opinion from Global Voices online.

Addition: I should add that it’s not clear to me.

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Derek Bok, who was asked to step back in at Harvard after Summers was ousted, has his book, the Politics Of Happiness reviewed here.  Have we backed into an idealism not sufficiently skeptical of what government can do?

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Nussbaum argues profoundly for more equality:  From The Reason Archives: ‘Discussing Disgust’ Julian Sanchez Interviews Martha Nussbaum

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