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    It is not the case that A just society should give priority to strictly protecting both basic liberties and FEO.

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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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    • 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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