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    The demand to justify the imposition of any particular ba... — Carmelics
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    The demand to justify the imposition of any particular basic structure is intensified.

    Justice & PunishmentSocial Contract
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    • The rules of any basic structure are coercively enforced, often with serious penalties.
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    • 1.Hume argued that justice arises from convention and habit, not rational justification, making demands for principled justification categorically misplaced.
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    • 2.A basic structure that evolves through historical practice carries its own legitimacy independent of any philosophical justification procedure.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that coercive enforcement of legitimately acquired holdings requires no further justification beyond procedural history.
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    • 2.If the intensified demand for justification applies to all basic structures equally, it generates an infinite regress that undermines political authority entirely.
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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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