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    The basic structure of a society requires justification. — Carmelics
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    The basic structure of a society requires justification.

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    • 1.The basic structure of a society has pervasive influence on citizens' life prospects, goals, attitudes, relationships, and characters.
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    • 2.Institutions that have pervasive influence on people's lives require justification.
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    • 1.Basic social structures emerge from evolved conventions and practices that precede and exceed the reach of deliberate justification.
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    • 2.Demanding justification presupposes a standpoint external to all social structures, but no such Archimedean point exists for evaluators.
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    • 3.Hayek's spontaneous order thesis holds that the demand for justification systematically distorts structures whose value lies in their non-designed character.
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    • 1.Hume argued that existing property and political institutions derive legitimacy from habituated consent and utility, not prior rational justification.
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    • 2.Requiring justification for the basic structure smuggles in a rationalist standard of legitimacy that begs the question against conventionalist accounts of political authority.
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    The form of a society’s basic structure will have profound effects on the lives of citizens. The basic structure will influence not only citizens’ life prospects, but more deeply their goals, their attitudes, their relationships, and their characters. Institutions that will have such pervasive influence on people’s lives require justification. Since leaving one’s society is not a realistic option for most people, the justification cannot be that citizens have consented to a basic structure by st
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