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    It is not the case that FEO should be given high priority because it protects the opportunity to fulfill one's basic moral interest in developing and exercising a sense of justice.

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    • 1.The sense of justice can be developed through familial, religious, and civic institutions that operate independently of labor market opportunity.
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    • 2.FEO's scope is restricted to competitive positional goods, leaving most moral development outside its regulatory reach.
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    • 3.Prioritizing FEO on grounds of moral development therefore overclaims its actual causal role in cultivating justice-oriented capacities.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Rawls's own lexical ordering places basic liberties prior to FEO precisely because liberty, not occupational access, is the primary site of moral self-authorship.
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    • 2.Grounding FEO's priority in the interest in developing a sense of justice smuggles in a justification that belongs constitutively to the first principle, not the second.
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    • 3.This conflation risks inflating FEO's lexical weight beyond what a well-ordered theory of justice can coherently sustain.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.FEO protects the opportunity to contribute to social cooperation by engaging in challenging, meaningful work.
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    • 2.Having the opportunity to engage in challenging, meaningful work helps one fulfill one's basic moral interest in developing and exercising a sense of justice.
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    • 3.Fulfilling one's basic moral interest in developing a sense of justice is not reducible to self-interest or consumption.
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