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    Luck egalitarianism is objectionable because it requires ... — Carmelics
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    Luck egalitarianism is objectionable because it requires distributive agencies to conduct intrusive and disrespectful inquiries into individuals' personal traits.

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    • 1.Rawlsian political liberalism holds that just institutions must remain neutral on contested conceptions of the good life and personal worth.
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    • 2.Luck egalitarianism requires the state to publicly rank some life choices as imprudent or irresponsible, violating this neutrality constraint.
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    • 3.Any distributive scheme that systematically degrades citizens' self-respect undermines the social bases of self-respect, a primary good Rawls identifies as foundational.
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    • 1.Elizabeth Anderson argues that democratic equality requires institutions to treat all citizens as moral equals capable of self-governance, not as subjects of bureaucratic scrutiny.
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    • 2.Luck egalitarianism structurally converts distributive agencies into moral auditors who must adjudicate the authenticity of preferences and the genuineness of disabilities.
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    • 3.Foucauldian analysis demonstrates that such auditing practices produce normalizing power relations that subordinate individuals to institutional judgment about their inner lives.
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    • 1.To establish that a badly-off person is owed equalizing compensation, luck egalitarianism must determine whether that person is personally responsible for their misfortune.
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    • 2.Making that determination requires distributive agencies to issue public negative assessments of individuals' traits.
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    • 3.Such intrusive inquiries and public negative assessments are disrespectful to the individuals subjected to them.
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    The ideal of a just modern society as a democratic society in which citizens relate as equals appears in writings by Michael Walzer on social justice (Walzer, 1983). Elizabeth Anderson and Samuel Scheffler both affirm versions of relational equality and from this standpoint criticize the family of views that Anderson calls “luck egalitarian,” whose foremost exponents are perhaps G. A. Cohen and Ronald Dworkin (Cohen 1989, Anderson 1999, Scheffler 2010, chapters 7 and 8, Dworkin 2000, and for res
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