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    Supports→Substantive democratic equality should have no independent weight against the fundamental aim of producing just laws and policies.

    If democratic equality's justification is itself consequentialist and outcome-dependent, it generates no independent deontological weight capable of overriding substantive justice.

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    Key Terms

    Deontological(as used in moral philosophy)
    An approach to ethics that focuses on whether actions follow rules and duties, rather than on whether they produce good outcomes.
    Deontological weight(as used in ethics)
    The moral importance or force that a principle or duty carries when we're trying to decide what's right.
    Outcome-dependent(as used in ethics)
    Something that relies on what actually happens as a result; it only matters or is only justified by how things turn out.
    consequentialist(Shared position of Russell and Moore)
    One who believes that the rightness or otherwise of an act is in some way dependent on consequences.
    democratic equality(Used both as a standalone ideal and as a floor constraint within hybrid views.)

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    A form of relational equality holding that all members of society are entitled to a baseline equal status as citizens, with some version of this entitlement being unconditional.
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
    substantive justice(Presented as a potentially competing value against substantive democratic equality.)
    The quality of political decisions, laws, and public policies being genuinely just in content and outcome, as distinct from procedurally fair.

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