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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Justice requires levelling the playing field by rendering everyone's opportunities equal, and then allowing individual choices to dictate further outcomes

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    • 1.The distinction between chosen and unchosen circumstances is incoherent, since choices are themselves shaped by unchosen factors like upbringing and psychology.
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    • 2.If all choice-influencing conditions must be equalized before choices become legitimate, the levelling task becomes infinite and self-defeating.
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    • 1.Equal opportunity frameworks presuppose a competitive structure of social goods, but justice may instead require transforming those structures entirely (Anderson, 1999).
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    • 2.Levelling the playing field leaves intact hierarchies of winners and losers, which democratic equality condemns regardless of procedural fairness.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Inequalities arising from unchosen circumstances are unjust and must be eliminated
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    • 2.Inequalities arising from individual choices under fair and equal initial conditions are permissible
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