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    No end-state or patterned principle of distributive justi... — Carmelics
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    No end-state or patterned principle of distributive justice can be continuously realized without continuous interference with people's lives.

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    • 1.Hayek's spontaneous order thesis shows that economic outcomes emerge from countless decentralized decisions no central authority can predict or control.
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    • 2.Any patterned principle requires an authority empowered to continuously monitor, intercept, and redirect these emergent transactions to restore the target distribution.
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    • 3.Such continuous monitoring and redirection constitutes a standing interference with voluntary exchange, not merely occasional correction.
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    • 1.Rawls's difference principle, applied dynamically, requires perpetual institutional adjustment as market outcomes diverge from the mandated arrangement.
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    • 2.Each such adjustment necessarily overrides the prior voluntary choices of individuals who acted within the rules as they stood, retroactively penalizing legitimate action.
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    • 3.A regime that systematically penalizes legitimate voluntary action to restore a pattern treats persons as means to distributive ends, violating Kantian constraints on persons as ends in themselves.
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    • 1.Even the smallest liberty—such as giving a coin to an entertainer—will alter a fixed distribution pattern over time.
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    • 2.To maintain a perfect pattern after it is achieved, one would have to prohibit all further consuming, creating, trading, and giving.
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    The problem with patterned principles is that, in Nozick’s words, liberty upsets patterns. “No end-state principle or distributional patterned principle of justice can be continuously realized without continuous interference with people’s lives” (1974: 163). To illustrate, Nozick asks you to imagine that society achieves a pattern of perfect justice by the lights of whatever principle you prefer. Then someone offers Wilt Chamberlain a dollar for the privilege of watching Wilt play basketball. Be
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