 Feinberg suggested that we can distinguish between “basic” and “derived” deserts. He went on to say that basic deserts are always responsive attitudes such as approval and disapproval. On this view, derived deserts are forms of treatment that would be fitting expressions of the more fundamental basic deserts. Thus, giving a student an A might be the fitting expression for approval of her work; giving a student an F might be the most fitting expression of serious disapproval of her work. Some recent contributors to the literature on desert seem to ignore this distinction between basic and derived desert, but others continue to employ the distinction and to treat it as important. Scanlon, for example, makes it a central feature of his conception of desert (see Scanlon 2013, 2018). 