Systemic patterns producing unequal group outcomes often stem from discriminatory rules or structures, not inevitable complexity, so calling them 'mistaken baseline' obscures responsibility.

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Discriminatory(as used in ethics and social philosophy): Treating people unfairly or unequally based on their group identity (like race, gender, or class) rather than on individual merit.
Obscures responsibility(as used in ethics and political philosophy): Makes it harder to see or assign blame; hides who should be held accountable for a problem.
Systemic: # Systemic Systemic means something that affects or involves an entire system rather than just individual parts. For example, systemic racism isn't just about individual prejudiced people, but about how discrimination is built into institutions, laws, and social structures as a whole. When a problem is systemic, it requires changes to the whole system to fix it, not just addressing isolated incidents.
baseline(Central to the counterfactual analysis of harm; must have an independent rationale rather than being set by the restriction on liberty itself): The counterfactual reference point against which a person's condition is compared to determine whether harm has occurred.

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