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    Our failure to reform the global order violates the human... — Carmelics
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    Our failure to reform the global order violates the human rights of the poor.

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    • 1.The current global order perpetuates global poverty.
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    • 2.Feasible reforms could avert this harm.
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    • 3.When feasible harm-averting reforms exist and are not taken, those who fail to act are implicated in the resulting harm and rights violations.
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    • 1.Human rights violations require an identifiable agent who actively imposes harm, not merely fails to prevent it (Pogge's own distinction).
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    • 2.The global order is a diffuse, multi-causal system with no unified agency capable of bearing the relevant rights-violating intention.
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    • 3.Without a unified agent whose omission constitutes the violation, the language of rights-violation is categorically misapplied, collapsing into a duty to rescue.
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    • 1.Causal contribution to poverty is radically overdetermined by domestic institutions, governance failures, and historical contingencies internal to states.
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    • 2.Pogge's threshold for 'implication in harm' conflates background conditions with proximate causation, a distinction Scanlon and Miller's relational account preserve.
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    • 3.If domestic institutional failure is the dominant cause of poverty, reforming the global order is neither necessary nor sufficient to discharge the alleged rights obligation.
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    Thomas Pogge offers an enormously influential account of duties with respect to human rights. Our current global order perpetuates global poverty on a massive scale, but since feasible reforms to that order could avert this harm, our failure to make reforms not only implicates us in the misery but also in the violation of the rights of the poor.[3] We therefore have extensive obligations to reform our global order so that the rights of the poor can be fulfilled.
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