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    It is not the case that Egalitarianism faces a dilemma between being parochial and being utopian

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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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    • 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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