 The first of these elements – the conviction claim – may tell against state measures designed to promote some activities and pursuits over others on the grounds that they are especially valuable or worthy of advancement.  For such state action could express the view that the disfavored pursuits are not equally worthwhile and this, in turn, could damage the self-respect of those whose conception of the good is bound up with them.  Presumably, this is why Rawls held that “democracy in judging one another’s aims is the foundation of self-respect in a well-ordered society” (Rawls 1971,442).