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    It is not the case that G.A. Cohen's currency-of-egalitarianism analysis shows that shifting from resources to advantage as the equalisandum can preserve both norms simultaneously, since advantage-space allows responsible choices and brute luck to be tracked on a single metric.

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    • 1.Advantage-space conflates distinct values (welfare, autonomy, resources) into one metric, obscuring genuine tradeoffs that a single measure cannot properly resolve.
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    • 2.Cohen's approach requires determining which disadvantages count as 'responsible choices' versus 'brute luck,' but this classification itself depends on contestable moral assumptions.
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    • 3.Tracking responsibility and brute luck on a single metric risks either making the metric unintelligibly complex or oversimplifying how responsibility actually operates morally.
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    • 1.Advantage-space (welfare, resources, capabilities combined) can measure both how much someone benefits and their responsibility for choices affecting that benefit.
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    • 2.Resource-egalitarianism alone cannot distinguish between disadvantage from brute luck versus disadvantage from culpable choices, failing to track moral responsibility.
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    • 3.A unified metric tracking advantage preserves the egalitarian commitment to neutralizing brute luck while respecting agent autonomy over chosen outcomes.
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