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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Health is a matter of justice, since each individual has an entitlement to health.

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    • 1.Health outcomes are substantially determined by genetics, behavior, and chance factors that lie beyond the scope of redistributive justice.
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    • 2.Justice governs the distribution of social goods produced through human cooperation, not natural biological conditions.
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    • 3.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that justice concerns fair procedures in acquisition and transfer, not the equalization of naturally distributed conditions.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Rights generate correlative duties, but no identifiable duty-bearer can be obligated to deliver health as a biological state to another person.
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    • 2.A claimed entitlement that cannot be assigned a corresponding enforceable obligation is a manifesto right, not a genuine justice claim.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Individuals have a human right to health.
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    • 2.Human rights claims make the subject of those rights a matter of justice.
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    • 3.A matter of justice entails that individuals have entitlements to it.
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