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

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    • 1.Equality of opportunity for flourishing requires that all students have equal prospects for living well regardless of differences in natural potentials.
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    • 2.Genetic differences constitute natural potentials that affect prospects for living well.
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    • 3.Educational institutions organized according to equality of opportunity for flourishing must compensate for all factors that create unequal prospects.
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    • 1.Rawls's difference principle addresses social institutions, not natural distributions, which fall outside the scope of basic structural justice.
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    • 2.Educational institutions are social structures whose obligations extend only to correcting socially produced inequalities, not naturally occurring ones.
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    • 3.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.Norman Daniels argues that fair equality of opportunity requires only that social positions be open to those with relevant natural talents, not that talents themselves be equalized.
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    • 2.Compensating for genetic disadvantage presupposes a baseline of normal functioning that is itself philosophically contested and risks medicalizing ordinary human variation.
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    The view so stated has very radical implications for educational institutions since it charges them with ensuring that all students have equal prospects for living well, regardless of differences in their natural potentials. Thus, educational institutions organized in accordance with equality of opportunity for flourishing would not only have to provide compensatory support and resources for those from disadvantaged family backgrounds, but also for those who have genetic disadvantages.
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