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    It is not the case that Nozick's entitlement theory demonstrates that patterned outcomes from opportunity expansion necessarily violate side-constraints that formal procedural fairness itself entails.

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    • 1.Nozick's historical entitlement theory itself depends on initial just acquisition, a premise that lacks convincing justification for current holdings.
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    • 2.Opportunity expansion and procedural fairness can be compatible: fair procedures that enable opportunity do not necessarily mandate specific outcome patterns.
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    • 3.Side-constraints protecting acquisition are themselves substantive value choices, not foundational truths independent of contested normative theories.
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    • 1.Nozick's side-constraints protect individual rights as inviolable boundaries that cannot be transgressed even for aggregate welfare gains.
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    • 2.Patterned distributions (e.g., equal opportunity outcomes) require continuous redistribution, inevitably interfering with people's free choices.
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    • 3.Formal procedural fairness demands that rules apply equally to all; patterned outcomes require exception-making that violates this universality.
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