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    It is not the case that Equality of resources is a justified egalitarian ideal for social justice.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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