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    Fair Equality of Opportunity (FEO) is indeterminate when ... — Carmelics
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    Fair Equality of Opportunity (FEO) is indeterminate when different educational regimes produce different relative outcomes for different individuals

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    • 1.Rawls's FEO is grounded in careers-open-to-talents, which requires equalizing competitive prospects across social positions, not maximizing aggregate outcomes.
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    • 2.When two regimes produce non-comparable interpersonal outcome distributions, no Pareto-superior option exists, leaving FEO's selection criterion formally undefined.
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    • 3.Norman Daniels's elaboration of FEO explicitly relies on a species-normal baseline, which cannot adjudicate between regimes that shift the baseline differently for different individuals.
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    • 1.Arrow's impossibility theorem demonstrates that no social choice rule can consistently aggregate conflicting individual preference orderings under minimal fairness constraints.
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    • 2.FEO's requirement to equalize prospects functions as a social choice rule over competing educational regimes, making it structurally vulnerable to Arrow-type indeterminacy when regimes produce divergent relative rankings.
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    • 1.FEO requires choosing policies that give equally talented individuals equal competitive prospects
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    • 2.In a two-person society with Smith and Jones, one educational regime produces better outcomes for Jones while another produces better outcomes for Smith
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    • 3.FEO provides no criterion for choosing between policies that differentially benefit individuals with different talents
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    The idea of one person having the same native talent as another, invoked in the statement of FEO, is unclear. Consider a simple example. Suppose we could install just one of two educational programs in a two-person society consisting of Smith and Jones. One provides more intensive education, the other a more relaxed schooling. Under the intensive regime, Jones ends up with higher earnings prospects, and under the relaxed regime, Smith ends up with higher earnings prospects. Which to choose? Eq
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