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    Nozick's entitlement theory holds that rectificatory duti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The U.S. has a remedial responsibility to create opportunities for the poor and minorities

    Nozick's entitlement theory holds that rectificatory duties require traceable, identifiable chains of specific injustice to specific victims.

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    • 1.Justice requires matching remedies to actual wrongs; vague collective guilt distributes compensation arbitrarily and unfairly.
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    • 2.Without traceable chains, we cannot distinguish legitimate restitution from redistribution disguised as justice.
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    • 3.Identifying specific victims respects their agency by acknowledging them as particular persons wronged, not abstract groups.
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    • 1.Systemic injustices (slavery, colonialism) harm descendants structurally even without traceable individual chains of causation.
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    • 2.The requirement for traceable chains may be practically impossible for historical wrongs, making justice perpetually unachievable.
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    • 3.Nozick's standard ignores how institutions compound injustice; victims' harms spread across populations in ways not individually traceable.
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