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    It is not the case that Equal opportunity norms are necessary but not sufficient for social justice.

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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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    • 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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