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    It is not the case that Each human being has a natural place and duty within society determined by individual talents

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    • 1.Rousseau and Marx both demonstrate that perceived 'natural' social roles typically reflect contingent historical arrangements and power structures, not nature.
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    • 2.If talents are substantially shaped by social conditions (Bourdieu's habitus), then the 'natural place' derived from them merely reproduces existing inequalities.
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    • 1.Kant's autonomy principle holds that persons must be ends in themselves, not instruments assigned functions by their capacities as evaluated by others.
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    • 2.Assigning social duty based on talent treats persons as means to social efficiency rather than as self-legislating rational agents.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Each human being is born with specific individual skills and weaknesses
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    • 2.These innate talents equip each person for particular roles
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