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    Challenges→G.A. Cohen's currency-of-egalitarianism analysis shows that shifting from resources to advantage as the equalisandum can preserve both norms simultaneously, since advantage-space allows responsible choices and brute luck to be tracked on a single metric.

    Cohen's approach requires determining which disadvantages count as 'responsible choices' versus 'brute luck,' but this classification itself depends on contestable moral assumptions.

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    Key Terms

    Cohen(as a reference to mathematical results about axioms)
    Paul Cohen was a mathematician who proved in the 1960s that certain basic assumptions about infinity and sets cannot be proven true or false from the other standard rules of mathematics.
    brute luck(luck egalitarianism)
    Bad luck for which individuals are not responsible; luck egalitarians hold we owe assistance or compensation for it.
    contestable moral assumptions(describing the foundation that any classification of luck versus choice rests on)
    Basic beliefs about what is right or wrong that reasonable people can disagree about, rather than facts everyone accepts.
    responsible choices(as something fairness theory needs to account for)
    Decisions that people intentionally make for themselves and should be held accountable for.

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