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    Egalitarian justice duties apply among members of each po... — Carmelics
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    Egalitarian justice duties apply among members of each political community rather than globally

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    • 1.Members of a tolerably well-functioning political community cooperate through the state to provide crucial benefits to all members
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    • 2.These crucial benefits include basic goods of physical security, property, and the rule of law
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    • 3.Without these goods, individuals would not have a reasonable opportunity to pursue any plan of life
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    • 1.Global economic interdependence already constitutes a coercive basic structure imposing enforceable obligations on all persons, not just co-nationals.
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    • 2.Rawls's own criterion—shared coercive institutions distributing burdens and benefits—is satisfied by the WTO, IMF, and international trade regimes.
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    • 3.Restricting egalitarian duties to political communities therefore arbitrarily excludes the very global scheme that most determines life prospects for the global poor.
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    • 1.The moral significance of reciprocity derives from persons' equal moral worth as rational agents, not from contingent membership in a particular cooperative scheme.
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    • 2.If arbitrary birth into a wealthy political community triggers stronger egalitarian claims than birth into poverty outside it, the framework privileges morally irrelevant luck over the equal dignity grounding justice itself.
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    Justice & PunishmentDemocracy & Governance

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    Social Contract4 linkedRights & Liberty2 linkedVirtue Ethics1 linkedMoral Responsibility1 linked

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    Another line of thought offered to support the claim that egalitarian justice duties apply state by state among the members of each political community united by a state rather than among all inhabitants of a region of the Earth or all of the Earth's inhabitants or among all rational agents anywhere and everywhere appeals not to state coercion but to collective goods. The suggestion is that the members of any tolerably well-functioning political community cooperate together through the state to
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    Receipt of these crucial goods triggers obligations of reciprocity in all recipi...
    Restricting egalitarian duties to political communities therefore arbitrarily ex...
    The moral significance of reciprocity derives from persons' equal moral worth as...
    These crucial benefits include basic goods of physical security, property, and t...
    What one owes fellow cooperators by way of reciprocity takes the form of egalita...
    Without these goods, individuals would not have a reasonable opportunity to purs...
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