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    It is not the case that Society is structured by nature in an organic and hierarchical fashion.

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    • 1.Social hierarchies are historically contingent products of power, coercion, and accident rather than expressions of natural order.
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    • 2.Rousseau demonstrated that inequality originates in property and convention, not in nature's distribution of innate capacities.
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    • 3.If hierarchy were natural, we would not observe the radical variation in social structures across human societies and historical periods.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The inference from innate difference to hierarchical rank commits a naturalistic fallacy: variation in capacity does not entail superiority of persons.
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    • 2.Rawls's veil of ignorance argument shows that rational agents would not consent to social structures premised on morally arbitrary natural endowments.
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    • 3.Functional differentiation of roles is compatible with horizontal coordination among equals, making hierarchy an addition to, not a consequence of, organic social structure.
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    • 1.Individual members of society have particular innate skills and natural dispositions.
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    • 2.These innate skills and dispositions correspond to particular trades and professions.
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    • 3.The natural assignment of roles based on innate character produces an organic, hierarchical social structure.
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