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    It is not the case that Luck egalitarianism's foundational premise—that unequal outcomes require justification by choice—presupposes an individualist metaphysics incompatible with relational equality's social ontology.

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    • 1.Choice-responsibility distinctions don't logically require atomistic metaphysics; relational contexts can frame when choices should ground unequal outcomes.
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    • 2.Relational equality's social ontology itself presupposes individuals capable of standing in relations—a form of individualism it claims to reject.
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    • 3.Without some principled way to distinguish lucky from chosen outcomes, relational equality cannot explain why any inequality needs justification at all.
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    • 1.Luck egalitarianism treats individuals as atomistic units whose outcomes depend on discrete choices, ignoring how social relations constitute personal agency.
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    • 2.Relational equality prioritizes how people stand to each other; this requires examining structural interdependence, not isolating individual responsibility.
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    • 3.By focusing on justifying inequality through choice, luck egalitarianism obscures how social hierarchies shape what choices are available to whom.
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