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    Equal status and relating as equals is the relational equ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→One can hold that people should have equal status and relate as equals while also allowing demotion to lesser status through responsible bad choices.

    Equal status and relating as equals is the relational equality ideal.

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    Relational equality advocates usually advance their equality ideal as a rival to other understandings of equality including luck egalitarianism. But these disparate equality ideals need not be opposed. For example, one could (1) affirm relational equality and hold that in a just society people should relate as free and equal and also (2) affirm luck egalitarianism and hold that people should be equal in their condition (according to their holdings and attainments of resources, capabilities, or w

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