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    Cohen's substantive equality principle fails to adequately ground the claim that race-based burdens invariably violate dignity

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    • 1.Rawls's framework distinguishes burdens that arise from fair equality of opportunity versus those imposed by morally arbitrary characteristics like race.
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    • 2.Race-based burdens can serve distributive justice without constituting dignity violations when they remedy prior systematic exclusions, as Rawls's difference principle permits differential treatment for the least advantaged.
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    • 3.Cohen's dignity principle, absent specification, cannot distinguish remedial race-conscious burdens from historically oppressive ones, undermining its claim to invariable application.
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    • 1.Dworkin's equality of resources framework holds that dignity requires equal concern from institutions, not identical treatment, meaning race-sensitive policies can honor rather than violate dignity.
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    • 2.If bearing differential burdens assigned by race can express equal institutional concern for historically marginalized groups, then the invariability claim in Cohen's principle lacks grounding in a fully specified dignity concept.
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    • 1.Cohen's principle requires specifying a conception of dignity in which bearing unequal burdens assigned by race invariably amounts to an assault on dignity, even when those burdens serve urgent social ends
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    • 2.Cohen has not provided this specification in his work
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    Because the Aristotelian principle by itself doesn’t rule out racial preferences (since blacks and whites may be relevantly different with respect to certain legitimate public purposes), it is not surprising that Cohen also invokes a substantive conception of equality: “All members of humankind are equally ends in themselves, all have equal dignity—and therefore all are entitled to equal respect from the community and its laws” (Cohen and Sterba 2003, 24). This principle, however, brings us back
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