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    Egalitarianism faces a dilemma between being parochial an... — Carmelics
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    Egalitarianism faces a dilemma between being parochial and being utopian

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    • 1.If egalitarianism is restricted to single societies, it is parochial because there is no principled basis for that restriction
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    • 2.If egalitarianism is extended globally, it is Quixotic and utopian because its demands are deeply counterintuitive
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    • 3.Egalitarianism must be either restricted to single societies or extended globally
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    • 1.Rawls and Miller ground egalitarian obligations in associative duties arising from shared institutions, providing a principled basis for scope restriction.
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    • 2.Institutional co-membership generates special obligations without implying global demands are incoherent or that the restriction is merely arbitrary.
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    • 3.The dilemma's P3 presents a false exhaustion, since relational egalitarianism occupies a principled middle ground between parochialism and global utopianism.
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    • 1.Pogge's cosmopolitan institutionalism shows global egalitarian demands can be modest and feasible, targeting specific harmful institutional arrangements rather than full distributive equality.
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    • 2.A theory requiring only the reform of coercive global institutions like the WTO or IMF is neither utopian nor deeply counterintuitive to most reflective agents.
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    • 3.The claim conflates strong cosmopolitan egalitarianism with all global egalitarianism, thereby overstating the utopianism of globally-extended positions.
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    The question, whether the requirement of equalizing people's condition applies within particular societies but not across societies on a global scale, might be thought to raise a rough dilemma for the normative attractiveness of any equality ideal. The dilemma arises in the following train of thought. On the one hand, there is no good basis for restricting the scope of equality. If equality matters, the group that should be made equal is people everywhere. On the other hand, a global equality re
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