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    Rawls's cooperative scheme argument entails that distribu... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The scope of equality requirements cannot be justifiably restricted to particular societies alone

    Rawls's cooperative scheme argument entails that distributive principles presuppose a bounded system of social rules that does not exist globally.

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    • 1.Rawls's theory requires participants to know they share a closed system of mutual obligation and reciprocal benefit.
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    • 2.Global institutional structures lack the unified legal and political framework necessary for stable cooperative schemes.
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    • 3.Without bounded membership, principles of justice cannot determine fair distribution when beneficiaries and contributors are undefined.
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    • 1.Rawls himself extended justice as fairness to the law of peoples, suggesting bounded schemes aren't strictly necessary for principles.
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    • 2.Many global problems (climate, pandemics) create de facto cooperative schemes without formal institutional boundaries.
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    • 3.The claim conflates practical institutional design with the logical requirements of distributive principles themselves.
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