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    A distribution of liberties, opportunities, and goods is ... — Carmelics
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    A distribution of liberties, opportunities, and goods is just only if it satisfies the norm of equality of opportunity

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    • 1.Unchosen and uncourted inequalities should be eliminated
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    • 2.Inequalities that individuals could have avoided through reasonable choices, given equal initial conditions and a fair framework for interaction, may be left standing
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that just distributions arise from voluntary exchanges, not patterned norms like equal opportunity.
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    • 2.Any patterned principle of justice requires continuous interference with voluntary transactions to maintain the pattern.
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    • 3.Enforcing equality of opportunity therefore violates the self-ownership rights that any adequate theory of justice must respect.
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    • 1.The distinction between chosen and unchosen disadvantages presupposes a coherent account of agency that luck egalitarianism cannot provide.
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    • 2.Elizabeth Anderson argues that equal opportunity frameworks humiliate the disadvantaged by demanding they prove their misfortune was not self-caused.
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    • 3.A just distribution is better grounded in relational equality among citizens than in neutralizing luck across individual life outcomes.
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    Equality of opportunity of a sort has also been proposed as an answer to a quite different question. In this role equality of opportunity is conceived to be playing the central core role in a theory of distributive justice. The central question of distributive justice might be formulated in this way: Under what conditions is the distribution of liberties, opportunities, and goods that society makes available to persons just or morally fair? The equality-of-opportunity distributive justice theori
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