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    It is not the case that A regime of equal money distribution could only be maintained through wrongful interference with people's liberty.

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    • 1.If money is distributed equally at one point in time, people will freely choose actions that tend to produce unequal distributions over time.
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    • 2.Sustaining equal distribution therefore requires continuously intervening to reverse the outcomes of people's free choices.
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    • 3.Continuously intervening to reverse the outcomes of people's free choices constitutes wrongful interference with liberty.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory establishes that holdings are just only if acquired through just acquisition or voluntary transfer.
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    • 2.Enforced redistribution violates the Kantian constraint against using persons merely as means by treating individuals as resources for others' benefit.
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    • 3.Any patterned distributive principle necessarily conflicts with liberty because maintaining any pattern requires continuous interference with voluntary exchanges.
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    • 1.Hayek's spontaneous order theory demonstrates that free market outcomes reflect dispersed knowledge no central authority can possess or legitimately override.
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    • 2.Coercively reversing market outcomes punishes individuals for acting on legitimate expectations created by the prior equal distribution itself.
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