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    The idea of equality is at the root of social justice. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Equality of political power cannot be intrinsically fair or just in democratic systems.

    The idea of equality is at the root of social justice.

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    Other arguments question the coherence of the idea of intrinsically fair collective decision making processes. For instance, social choice theory questions the idea that there can be a fair decision making function that transforms a set of individual preferences into a rational collective preference. The core objection is that no general rule satisfying reasonable constraints can be devised that can transform any set of individual preferences into a rational social preference. And this is taken

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