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    Restricting egalitarian principles to the state therefore... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Egalitarian principles of justice are triggered within each state, not across all states globally.

    Restricting egalitarian principles to the state therefore arbitrarily privileges the institutional vehicle over the moral feature—involuntary disadvantage—that actually grounds the principles.

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    Arbitrarily privileges(as used in logic and ethics)
    Treats one thing as more important than another without good reasons; favors something in an unfair or random way.
    Egalitarian principles(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    The idea that people should be treated fairly and have equal basic rights and opportunities, without some people being unfairly advantaged over others.
    Grounds (as a philosophical concept)(as used in philosophy generally)
    Serves as the basic reason or foundation for something; explains why a principle or belief should exist.
    Institutional vehicle(as used in political philosophy)
    A formal organization or system (like a government) used as the means to carry out or achieve something.
    Involuntary disadvantage

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    A harmful situation or unfair treatment that someone experiences through no choice of their own—something that happens to them, not something they chose.
    Moral feature(as used in ethics)
    A characteristic or aspect of a situation that matters for determining what is right and wrong.
    the state(Contrasted with Aristotle's view of the state as a natural stage of human development)
    A self-imposed moral entity created by humans at the command of natural law as a defensive cooperative scheme against the threat posed by other human beings.

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