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    It is not the case that Rawlsian institutions that redistribute opportunity and wealth create structured winners and losers whose material interests persistently undermine principled allegiance.

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    • 1.Many high-earners support progressive redistribution and many low-earners oppose it, showing material interest doesn't determine political principle.
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    • 2.Rawls's veil of ignorance aims precisely to decouple material interest from justice judgments, making principled allegiance possible despite redistribution.
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    • 3.Non-redistributive systems also create winners and losers; the claim assumes redistribution uniquely undermines principle without comparing alternatives.
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    • 1.Redistributive policies create identifiable groups with opposing material stakes: net contributors resist taxation while net beneficiaries support it.
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    • 2.Self-interest systematically biases political judgment; those disadvantaged by redistribution rationalize opposition as principled rather than material.
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    • 3.Stable consensus on justice requires convergence of material interest and principle, which redistribution structurally prevents by design.
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