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    It is not the case that Equality of condition, if part of social justice, must reflect an appropriately limited conception of social responsibility.

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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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    • 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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