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    Equality of resources is a justified egalitarian ideal fo... — Carmelics
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    Equality of resources is a justified egalitarian ideal for social justice.

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    • 1.A just egalitarian ideal must reflect limited social responsibility rather than open-ended obligations.
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    • 2.Equality of resources reflects an appropriately limited conception of social responsibility.
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    • 3.Equality of condition as an ideal fails because it would require correcting outcomes that result from individual choices and unchosen chance factors alike.
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    • 1.Resources have no intrinsic value; what matters is what resources enable people to do and be (Sen's capabilities critique).
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    • 2.Two persons with identical resources but different physical capacities achieve radically unequal substantive freedoms.
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    • 3.A just egalitarian metric must be sensitive to human diversity, making resource equality systematically inadequate as a distributive ideal.
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    • 1.Dworkin's hypothetical insurance auction presupposes informed rational agents whose preferences are themselves shaped by unjust social conditions.
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    • 2.A distributive scheme built on preference-satisfaction under conditions of adaptive preference formation launders, rather than corrects, structural injustice.
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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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