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    An argument from fairness alone is insufficient to establ... — Carmelics
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    An argument from fairness alone is insufficient to establish the superior legitimacy of democratic decision-making over other procedures

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    • 1.Fairness, as Rawls construes it, concerns equal standing among participants, not merely equal probability of outcome.
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    • 2.A coin flip grants equal probability but denies participants the standing to offer reasons, which is constitutive of equal respect.
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    • 3.Procedures that deny reason-giving fail the deeper fairness requirement even if they satisfy surface-level equiprobability conditions.
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    • 1.Peter Singer and Robert Dahl argue democratic legitimacy requires not just procedural equality but equal consideration of interests across decisions over time.
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    • 2.A single coin flip cannot institutionalize the ongoing accountability mechanisms through which equal consideration of interests is sustained.
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    • 3.Therefore fairness as equal consideration of interests requires more than any single procedure can provide, exposing fairness arguments as insufficient on their own to privilege democracy.
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    • 1.Other decision-making procedures, such as flipping a coin, also satisfy a fairness requirement
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    • 2.If multiple procedures satisfy the same fairness requirement, fairness cannot distinguish among them
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    Estlund (2008) has raised a challenge against fairness-based versions of democratic proceduralism. He points out that other decision-making procedures—flipping a coin, for example—also satisfy a fairness requirement. An argument from fairness is thus insufficient to establish the superior legitimacy of democratic decision-making. Pure proceduralists can respond to this challenge by pointing to the distinctive fairness of democratic decision-making procedures. Christiano and Kolodny, for example,
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