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    Equal opportunity norms are necessary but not sufficient ... — Carmelics
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    Equal opportunity norms are necessary but not sufficient for social justice.

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    • 1.A fully realized meritocracy could satisfy equal opportunity norms while still producing outcomes that are morally alarming.
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    • 2.A complete theory of social justice requires more than the satisfaction of equal opportunity norms.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that just outcomes arise solely from fair procedures, making equal opportunity norms both necessary AND sufficient.
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    • 2.If voluntary exchanges from a just starting point produce unequal outcomes, those outcomes carry no further justice obligations.
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    • 3.Adding substantive outcome-based criteria to procedural fairness violates individual rights by treating persons as means to social ends.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations suggest 'social justice' lacks determinate content beyond what procedural norms like equal opportunity already specify.
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    • 2.Without a coherent independent standard for 'more than equal opportunity,' the sufficiency objection collapses into an open-ended redistribution mandate with no principled limit.
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    Even if the scenario just described in empirically far-fetched, its conceptual possibility raises questions about equal opportunity norms. Should we view the envisaged triumph of meritocracy with equanimity or moral alarm? One response is that this line of thought just reinforces the point that these two equal opportunity norms do not add up to a full theory of social justice. Maybe satisfaction of equal opportunity norms is necessary but not sufficient for social justice. Another response is th
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