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    Assigning remedial duties to firms based on capacity rath... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Firms should ameliorate serious problems such as poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation.

    Assigning remedial duties to firms based on capacity rather than causal contribution, as argued by Iris Marion Young's critics, misidentifies the proper locus of structural injustice remediation.

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    Causal contribution(as used in ethics and metaphysics)
    When someone plays a direct role in causing something to happen—they're part of the chain of events that led to the outcome.
    Iris Marion Young(as a reference to whose work on structural injustice is being cited)
    An American political philosopher who studied how unfair treatment gets built into systems and institutions, rather than just coming from individual people's bad choices.
    Remedial duties(who should be responsible for fixing problems)
    The responsibilities that individuals or organizations have to fix or repair harm and injustice they've caused.
    capacity(Theory of capacity)
    A subject's ability to make decisions, assessed by paradigm examples and the presence of necessary (and possibly sufficient) abilities.

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    locus(Buddhist atomic theory critique)
    The spatial location occupied by an atom; the argument treats locus as exclusive — one atom's locus cannot simultaneously be the locus of another distinct atom.
    structural injustice(Powers and Faden 2019)
    A condition characterized by unfair patterns of disadvantage, unfair power relations, deprivations in core elements of well-being, and human rights violations, where these elements are mutually reinforcing.

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