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    Challenges→Educational institutions must provide compensatory support for students with genetic disadvantages, not only those from disadvantaged family backgrounds.

    Conflating natural and social disadvantages in institutional design collapses the distinction between what society owes persons and what nature merely imposes.

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    • 1.Society is responsible only for harms it creates; natural limitations exist independent of social structures.
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    • 2.Conflating these categories risks obligating institutions to solve all human suffering, which is practically impossible.
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    • 3.Distinguishing them preserves meaningful accountability: society answers for discrimination, nature does not.
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    • 1.Social institutions always mediate natural conditions; there is no pre-social 'natural' baseline to reference.
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    • 2.Whether disadvantage stems from nature or society, its impact on opportunity is identical and equally calls for remedy.
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    • 3.The distinction enables institutions to evade responsibility for effects they could mitigate through design choices.
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