  Prioritarianism is not vulnerable to the leveling down objection, so if one finds that objection decisive against any position that takes equality of any sort to be non-instrumentally valuable, priority looks to be an ethically attractive alternative. Political conservatives sometimes conjecture that the rancorous emotion of envy fuels the impulse to egalitarian movements. With respect to a possible good and your having it or my having it or both of us or neither of us having it, if I am an envious person, I prefer my having it rather than your having it and also prefer neither of us having it to your having it. The prioritarian judgments as to what ought to be done do not reflect the preferences of the envious. (Clarification: Envy as just described corresponds to the ordinary common-sense notion of envy as a vice, which should be sharply distinguished from the bland preference constitutive of the No-envy fairness criterion. These are different ideas.)