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    It is not the case that Luck egalitarianism is mistaken in its aim because egalitarian justice should seek solidarity and respect among citizens, not equal distribution of goods.

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    • 1.Luck egalitarians hold that the goal of egalitarian justice is achieving an equal distribution of goods.
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    • 2.The proper aim of egalitarian justice is egalitarian solidarity and respect among members of society, not distribution of goods.
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    • 1.Elizabeth Anderson's relational egalitarianism shows that luck egalitarianism's obsessive focus on distribution abandons victims of bad option luck, violating equal standing.
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    • 2.A just society requires citizens to relate as equals in social institutions, a condition no distributive formula alone can establish or maintain.
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    • 3.When egalitarianism targets brute luck rather than oppressive social hierarchies, it misidentifies the actual injustice that political equality is designed to remedy.
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    • 1.Rawls's original position grounds justice in fair terms of cooperation among equals, not in neutralizing natural contingencies through redistribution.
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    • 2.Samuel Scheffler's work demonstrates that egalitarian concern originates in relational duties of mutual respect, which distributive metrics systematically fail to capture.
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    • 3.Luck egalitarianism's intrusive inquiries into personal choices to determine compensation eligibility treat citizens as subjects of pity rather than as free and equal persons.
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