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    Extending domination claims to those never directly targe... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Domination does not require the active exercise of power against the dominated individual, though it may require the active exercise of power against someone relevantly similar to that individual.

    Extending domination claims to those never directly targeted risks dissolving the agent-specific harm condition that makes rights violations action-guiding rather than merely sociological.

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    • 1.Rights violations require specific causal connection between agent's action and identifiable victim's harm to generate binding duties.
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    • 2.Extending domination claims to indirect targets conflates structural inequality with actionable wrongs, weakening moral accountability.
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    • 3.Action-guiding norms need agent-specific targets; diffuse harms across populations risk becoming abstract grievances without clear remedies.
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    • 1.Systemic domination harms people through impersonal structures precisely because victims lack direct relationship to specific agents.
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    • 2.Restricting 'rights violations' to agent-specific cases excludes exploitation built into institutions, which remains morally actionable.
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    • 3.Rights can guide action at collective/institutional level without identifying single agents—regulatory reform addresses structural wrongs.
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    Key Terms

    Action-guiding(as used in ethics)
    Capable of actually helping someone decide what to do in a real situation, rather than being purely theoretical.
    Agent-specific harm condition(as used in defining what makes something a rights violation)
    The requirement that a wrong must be done to a particular person (not just society in general) for it to count as a violation of their rights.
    Rights violations(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    Actions that wrongfully infringe on someone's basic entitlements or freedoms (like their right to safety or property).
    Sociological(as used in contrasting with moral obligations)
    Relating to patterns and statistics about how society works, without necessarily telling us what's right or wrong.
    domination(Political philosophy / republican theory of freedom)
    A social condition in which power is held over a person such that their behavior is conditioned by fear of what the power-holder can do, regardless of whether that power is currently being actively exercised against them.

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