The distinction, however, between income inequality and eco- nomic inequality is important. Many of the criticisms of economic egalitarianism as a value or a goal apply much more readily to the narrow concept of income inequality than they do to the broader notions of economic inequality. For example, giving a larger share of income to a person with more needs say, due to a disability can be seen as militating against the principe of equalizing incomes, but it does not go against the broader precepts of economic equality, since he greater need for economic resources due to the disability must be taken into account in judging the requirements of economic equality.