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    The poor bear remedial responsibility for addressing thei... — Carmelics
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    The poor bear remedial responsibility for addressing their own problems

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    • 1.The poor are causally responsible for many of their own problems
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    • 2.Causal responsibility for harm grounds forward-looking (remedial) responsibility
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    • 1.Causal responsibility requires the ability to have done otherwise, which structural poverty systematically forecloses for many individuals.
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    • 2.When background conditions (labor markets, inherited wealth, systemic discrimination) are the dominant causal factors, individual causal contribution is insufficient to ground remedial responsibility.
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    • 3.Young's social connection model holds that those who benefit from structural arrangements bear primary remedial responsibility, not those disadvantaged by them.
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    • 1.Rawls's difference principle establishes that inequalities are just only if they benefit the least advantaged, implying institutions—not individuals—bear primary corrective duties.
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    • 2.Grounding remedial responsibility in causal contribution conflates outcome responsibility with agent-regret, a distinction Bernard Williams explicitly draws to resist moral luck's punitive implications.
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    Interestingly enough, not everyone thinks that such principles are necessary. Indeed, a few key figures in the field still assume that forward looking (remedial) responsibility is grounded in causal responsibility for the harm now deemed in need of a remedy. David Lyons (Lyons 2004) feels comfortable assuming that because the U.S. was causally responsibility for poverty and racism in the past, it now has a responsibility for doing everything that it can to create opportunities for the poor and m
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