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    Equality of condition, if part of social justice, must re... — Carmelics
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    Equality of condition, if part of social justice, must reflect an appropriately limited conception of social responsibility.

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    • 1.Social justice obligations of society are limited, not open-ended.
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    • 2.Any component of social justice must conform to the same limits that apply to social justice as a whole.
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    • 1.G.A. Cohen argues that social justice demands extend to personal choices and individual ethos, not merely institutional structures.
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    • 2.If justice pervades personal conduct, the scope of social responsibility is not pre-limited but determined by the demands of equality itself.
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    • 1.Rawls's difference principle conditions inequality on maximizing the position of the least advantaged, imposing no prior ceiling on redistributive demands.
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    • 2.The limits of social responsibility are therefore internal to egalitarian principles, not external constraints that precede and shape them.
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    Another thought that motivates the family of equality-of-resources ideals is that society's obligations by way of providing for its members are limited. A just and egalitarian society is not plausibly held to be obligated to do whatever turns out to be necessary to bring it about that their members attain any given level or share of quality of life. The reason for this is that the quality of life (the degree to which one attains valuable agency and well-being goals) that any individual reaches o
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