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    It is not the case that Ronald Dworkin argued that liberal equality has one correct interpretation grounded in equal concern and respect, not a family of reasonable variants.

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    • 1.Equal concern and respect can ground multiple coherent institutional designs (welfare state, market-based, egalitarian), each defensible.
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    • 2.Dworkin's own work shows evolution and revision, suggesting even his framework allows reasonable interpretive pluralism, not singular truth.
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    • 3.Empirically, liberal democracies reasonably disagree on equality's meaning while genuinely respecting equal concern—suggesting variants are legitimate.
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    • 1.Equal concern and respect is a foundational principle that logically entails specific institutional requirements, not mere aspirations.
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    • 2.Treating equality as a family of variants risks collapse into relativism where any distribution can claim equal concern justification.
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    • 3.Dworkin's approach provides principled grounds to adjudicate between competing interpretations, rather than deferring to political preference.
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