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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Egalitarian principles of justice are triggered within each state, not across all states globally.

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    • 1.Global economic institutions (WTO, IMF, World Bank) coerce individuals across state boundaries by structuring the terms of their economic interaction.
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    • 2.If coercion triggers egalitarian principles, then transnational coercive structures trigger those principles globally, not merely within states.
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    • 3.Pogge and Beitz demonstrate that the baseline of coercion required to activate justice is met at the global level, dissolving the state-boundary restriction.
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    • 1.The moral relevance of coercion derives from its capacity to impose involuntary disadvantage, not from its association with any particular institutional form like the state.
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    • 2.Individuals in poor states suffer involuntary disadvantage from global structures they had no part in designing and cannot exit, satisfying the normative condition coercion is meant to track.
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    • 3.Restricting egalitarian principles to the state therefore arbitrarily privileges the institutional vehicle over the moral feature—involuntary disadvantage—that actually grounds the principles.
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    • 1.The state massively coerces its members but not outsiders.
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    • 2.The state claims to speak in the name of the members it coerces.
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    • 3.By claiming to speak in the name of its members, the state involves the will of those in whose name it claims to act.
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