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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Both principles can legitimately appeal to justice: the first ensures fair procedures, the second ensures fair outcomes—both express justice differently.
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    • 2.Developing a sense of justice is a reasonable motivation across multiple principles without necessarily 'belonging' to only the first principle exclusively.
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    • 3.The claim assumes principles have hermetically sealed justifications, but interdependence between principles doesn't constitute illegitimate smuggling.
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    • 1.The first principle (equal basic liberties) is foundationally about fair distribution of fundamental rights, not about cultivating virtues like justice.
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    • 2.If FEO's justification appeals to developing justice, it imports a virtue-based rationale alien to the difference principle's focus on material distribution.
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    • 3.Conflating principles obscures their distinct normative roles and risks collapsing Rawls's two-principle structure into a single teleological framework.
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