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    Following the underlying logic of the Dworkin proposal co... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Holding individuals fully responsible for the fortune they encounter through chosen gambles may make no sense within the Dworkinian framework itself.

    Following the underlying logic of the Dworkin proposal consistently requires tracing chosen luck back to its unchosen determinants.

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    Another sort of skepticism challenges whether the broad project of holding people responsible for their chosen luck but not for their unchosen luck really makes sense, because unchosen luck of genetic inheritance and early socialization fixes the individual's choice-making and value-selecting abilities. What one chooses, bad or good, may simply reflect the unchosen luck that gave one the ability to be a good or a bad chooser. Suppose for example that Smith chooses to experiment with cigarettes a

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