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    It is not the case that Our failure to reform the global order violates the human rights of the poor.

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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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    • 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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