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    It is not the case that Scanlon's reasonable rejectability test applies symmetrically: any principle permitting uncompensated natural disadvantage is rejectable by the worst-off, collapsing into Rawlsian difference-principle egalitarianism.

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    • 1.Scanlon's rejectability test concerns principles governing social institutions, not natural facts, so uncompensated natural disadvantage may fall outside its scope entirely.
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    • 2.The worst-off could reasonably accept some natural inequality if institutional principles ensure adequate minimum provision and fair opportunity, without demanding difference-principle maximization.
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    • 3.Reasonable rejectability permits multiple stable principles (desert-based, libertarian, threshold-based) that the worst-off might accept given reciprocal social cooperation benefits.
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    • 1.Reasonable rejectability requires that principles be justifiable to all affected parties, including those disadvantaged by natural inequality.
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    • 2.The worst-off cannot reasonably accept principles allowing uncompensated natural disadvantage, since they bear the greatest burden of such acceptance.
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    • 3.Scanlon's contractual framework logically entails that rejectable principles cannot form the basis of legitimate social rules, forcing convergence on difference-principle redistribution.
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