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    It is not the case that Laws and policies must go beyond merely preventing discrimination in education and hiring to achieve fair equality of opportunity

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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that just holdings arise from voluntary exchange, not patterned distributive outcomes.
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    • 2.State interventions beyond anti-discrimination enforcement violate the self-ownership rights of individuals in educational and labor markets.
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    • 3.Enforcing fair equality of opportunity through redistributive policy constitutes a coercive appropriation of persons as means to social ends.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hayek argues that 'social justice' presupposes a central coordinator able to assess and correct the spontaneous outcomes of free markets.
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    • 2.No institutional mechanism can reliably distinguish unjust social-class barriers from legitimate differential outcomes of diverse family choices and cultures.
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    • 3.Policies targeting background conditions beyond anti-discrimination thus impose arbitrary state judgments on outcomes that reflect no identifiable wrongdoer.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Fair equality of opportunity requires ensuring fair opportunity regardless of social class of origin
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    • 2.Merely preventing discrimination in education and hiring does not ensure fair opportunity regardless of social class of origin
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