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    Formal universal equality of opportunity is not inherentl... — Carmelics
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    Formal universal equality of opportunity is not inherently inappropriate for assessing people's engagement in personal, private, and intimate interaction.

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    • 1.Even merit-free interactions like friendship involve some criteria for selection.
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    • 2.Universal formal equality of opportunity plays a regulatory role even in merit-free interactions by ruling out discriminatory bases for selection.
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    • 3.The norm of formal universal equality of opportunity has substantive content when applied to personal interaction, restraining certain types of interaction formation.
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    • 1.Personal relationships derive their moral character precisely from the agent's freedom to select on particularist grounds, including affection and shared identity.
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    • 2.Applying formal equality norms to intimate association colonizes a sphere that liberal theory, following Mill and later Rawls, designates as beyond the reach of justice's distributive logic.
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    • 3.A norm that 'restrains interaction formation' in personal contexts contradicts the basic liberal commitment to freedom of association as a foundational, not derivative, right.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams's argument from integrity holds that moral frameworks requiring agents to treat personal commitments as subject to impartial scrutiny alienate persons from their own ground projects.
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    • 2.Friendship and intimate association are constitutively defined by partiality — Aristotle's philia requires preferential concern — so 'opportunity' norms are categorically inapplicable, not merely inappropriate.
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    • 3.Extending formal equality to personal selection does not merely regulate discrimination; it misidentifies the evaluative structure of the domain, committing a category error in normative application.
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    Reply to objection: For informal interaction, the relevant criteria for selection may include brute attraction on any basis. For some forms of interaction, the only relevant criterion is brute attraction on any basis. For such basically merit-free interactions, universal formal equality of opportunity still plays a regulatory role. The role consists of ruling out as inappropriate brute attraction on discriminatory grounds. The way you wear your hat, the way you sing off-key, and virtually anythi
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