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    Obligations of justice are generated by special relations... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The scope of equality requirements cannot be justifiably restricted to particular societies alone

    Obligations of justice are generated by special relationships of cooperation, coercion, and shared institutions, not mere co-existence as humans.

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    • 1.Justice requires reciprocity: those bound by mutual rules and institutions have grounds for enforcing compliance that strangers lack.
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    • 2.Global justice obligations would be indeterminate and infinite without institutional boundaries limiting who owes what to whom.
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    • 3.Coercive institutions create special duties because members lose freedoms and accept constraints that non-members avoid.
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    • 1.Basic human dignity generates obligations to prevent severe suffering regardless of institutional participation or cooperation.
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    • 2.Global supply chains and trade create de facto coercive relationships with distant strangers, triggering justice duties.
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    • 3.Reciprocity assumes fair background conditions; excluding distant poor from obligations perpetuates historical injustices.
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