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    Levelling the playing field leaves intact hierarchies of ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Justice requires levelling the playing field by rendering everyone's opportunities equal, and then allowing individual choices to dictate further outcomes

    Levelling the playing field leaves intact hierarchies of winners and losers, which democratic equality condemns regardless of procedural fairness.

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    • 1.Democratic equality requires equal standing and dignity for all citizens, not merely equal access to compete for unequal positions.
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    • 2.Procedural fairness alone cannot remedy systemic outcomes that concentrate power and resources in ways that undermine equal citizenship.
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    • 3.Winner-take-all hierarchies perpetuate structural advantages across generations, contradicting democracy's commitment to non-domination.
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    • 1.Some hierarchy based on merit, effort, or choice is compatible with democratic equality if entry conditions are genuinely fair.
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    • 2.Eliminating all outcome-based hierarchy requires coercive redistribution that itself threatens individual liberty and democratic self-governance.
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    • 3.Citizens can accept unequal results while maintaining equal dignity if they rationally endorse the fair rules producing those outcomes.
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