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    It is not the case that The Argument from Institutional Desert (AID) is false or morally defective

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.AID holds that an individual deserves what institutions require of them in virtue of the properties the institution cites as grounds
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    • 2.Slavery is a real social institution that requires strong and healthy slaves to work without pay
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    • 3.AID implies that a strong and healthy slave deserves to work without pay in virtue of being strong and healthy
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Desert claims are normatively valid only when grounded in institutions that themselves satisfy independent moral constraints (Rawls, A Theory of Justice, §48).
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    • 2.Slavery fails independent moral constraints by violating persons' status as self-owning rational agents, nullifying any desert claims it purports to generate.
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    • 3.Therefore, the slave counterexample exposes that AID conflates institutional recognition of desert with genuine desert, confirming AID is morally defective.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Genuine pre-institutional desert requires a fitting relationship between the desert basis and the deserved treatment (Feinberg, 'Justice and Personal Desert', 1963).
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    • 2.Being physically strong bears no morally relevant fitting relationship to unpaid coerced labor, so the slave case generates no authentic desert claim whatsoever.
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    • 3.AID's failure to require this fittingness condition means it cannot distinguish legitimate from monstrous institutional demands, rendering it morally defective as a general theory.
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