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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Egalitarian justice duties apply among members of each political community rather than globally

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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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    • 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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