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    It is not the case that Obligations of reciprocity arising from collective goods take the form of egalitarian justice requirements

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    • 1.Reciprocity obligations track what individuals actually contribute to cooperative schemes, not what factors caused unequal outcomes.
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    • 2.Nozick's entitlement theory demonstrates that legitimate holdings arising from voluntary exchanges carry no redistributive obligations even within shared institutions.
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    • 3.Compensating for unchosen factors conflates the separateness of persons with aggregate welfare, violating the Kantian constraint against using individuals as mere means to collective equalization.
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    • 1.Rawls's own difference principle permits inequalities benefiting the least advantaged, showing reciprocity within cooperation need not require strict equality of outcomes.
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    • 2.Stuart White's 'fair reciprocity' standard requires only that contributors receive proportional returns, not that unchosen natural or social advantages be neutralized across all participants.
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    • 1.Collective goods provided through state cooperation trigger obligations of reciprocity in all recipients
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    • 2.Factors beyond any individual's control affect that individual's good fortune or bad fortune under the cooperative scheme
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    • 3.When unchosen factors affect outcomes within a cooperative scheme, what is owed by way of reciprocity must compensate for those unchosen factors
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