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    It is not the case that Every person has an equal claim to all the means of happiness

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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