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    Rawls's difference principle addresses social institution... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Educational institutions must provide compensatory support for students with genetic disadvantages, not only those from disadvantaged family backgrounds.

    Rawls's difference principle addresses social institutions, not natural distributions, which fall outside the scope of basic structural justice.

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    • 1.Justice concerns only what we can collectively control through institutions, not unchosen natural facts like genetic endowments.
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    • 2.Rawls's basic structure determines life prospects more than nature does, so institutional design deserves primary normative focus.
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    • 3.Conflating natural distribution with social justice creates impossible obligations to equalize traits beyond institutional reach.
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    • 1.Institutions inevitably interact with natural distributions; ignoring nature means institutions may fail to achieve stated justice aims.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'natural' and 'institutional' is unstable; policies about education, medicine, and reproduction shape both.
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    • 3.If natural inequalities deserve no concern, talented individuals have weaker claims to help society benefit from their gifts fairly.
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