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    A just society should give priority to strictly protectin... — Carmelics
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    A just society should give priority to strictly protecting both basic liberties and FEO.

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    • 1.Self-respect is of utmost importance for any individual.
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    • 2.Priority should be given to sustaining the social bases of self-respect.
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    • 3.A society that strictly protects basic liberties and FEO sustains the social bases of self-respect.
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    • 1.Strict lexical priority of basic liberties over material welfare ignores that severe deprivation itself undermines the capacity for meaningful liberty.
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    • 2.A starving person's formal right to free speech is valueless without the material conditions necessary to exercise it effectively.
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    • 3.Justice requires addressing economic sufficiency before formal liberties, reversing Rawls's priority ordering in conditions of severe scarcity.
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    • 1.FEO, by mandating equal competitive access to positions, presupposes and entrenches a meritocratic hierarchy that systematically disadvantages those with fewer natural talents.
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    • 2.Rawls's difference principle, not FEO, is the more defensible egalitarian principle, since it directly addresses outcomes for the least advantaged rather than procedural competition.
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    One argument in support of the Rawlsian priority for FEO assumes that FEO regulates opportunities for self-realization whereas the principle that demands maximization of the social primary goods holdings of the worst off regulates consumption activities. If we add that self-realization should take strict lexical priority over mere consumption activities in anyone's reasonable plan of life, we get an argument for the priority of FEO (Taylor 2004). Another argument starts from the observation that
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    Self-respect is of utmost importance for any individual.
    Strict lexical priority of basic liberties over material welfare ignores that se...
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