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    A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive — Carmelics
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    A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive

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    • 1.A global equality requirement imposes very demanding obligations on prosperous individuals and nations
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    • 2.These obligations require sharing wealth with less prosperous strangers in distant lands
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    • 3.Requirements that impose such burdens on persons for the benefit of distant strangers strike many as implausible
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    • 1.Intuitions shaped by historically contingent nationalist frameworks do not reliably track moral truth about global obligations.
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    • 2.Peter Singer's drowning child argument demonstrates that physical distance is morally irrelevant to the duty to prevent serious harm.
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    • 3.If 'counterintuitive' were sufficient to defeat moral claims, we would be unable to revise intuitions that once justified slavery or colonialism.
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    • 1.Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism shows that wealthy nations actively harm the global poor through coercive trade regimes and odious debt enforcement.
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    • 2.When obligations arise from harm causation rather than mere beneficence, the 'demanding burden on behalf of strangers' framing fundamentally mischaracterizes the moral relationship.
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    The question, whether the requirement of equalizing people's condition applies within particular societies but not across societies on a global scale, might be thought to raise a rough dilemma for the normative attractiveness of any equality ideal. The dilemma arises in the following train of thought. On the one hand, there is no good basis for restricting the scope of equality. If equality matters, the group that should be made equal is people everywhere. On the other hand, a global equality re
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