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    Every person has an equal claim to all the means of happi... — Carmelics
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    Every person has an equal claim to all the means of happiness

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    • 1.The principle of utility entails that every person has an equal claim to happiness in the estimation of the moralist and the legislator
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    • 2.An equal claim to happiness entails an equal claim to all the means necessary for happiness
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that legitimate holdings arise from just acquisition and transfer, not from equal claims to means.
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    • 2.If individuals have rights over justly acquired resources, redistributing those resources to equalize happiness-means violates those rights.
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    • 3.A side-constraint on rights cannot be overridden merely by aggregative utility calculations, even ones framed as equal claims.
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    • 1.Aristotle's distributive justice requires proportional, not equal, allocation: unequal persons deserve unequal shares based on relevant merit.
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    • 2.Mill's premise that equal claim to happiness entails equal claim to all means conflates equal moral consideration with equal entitlement to resources.
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    Every person has an equal claim to happiness and to the means of happiness

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    It [impartiality] is involved in the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person’s happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another’s. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham’s dictum ‘everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,’ might be written under the principle of utility as an explanatory commentary. Th
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    The principle of utility entails that every person has an equal claim to happine...
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