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    The scope of equality requirements cannot be justifiably ... — Carmelics
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    The scope of equality requirements cannot be justifiably restricted to particular societies alone

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    • 1.If equality matters morally, there is no principled basis for limiting the group that should be made equal
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    • 2.People exist everywhere, not only within particular societies
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    • 1.Obligations of justice are generated by special relationships of cooperation, coercion, and shared institutions, not mere co-existence as humans.
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    • 2.Rawls's cooperative scheme argument entails that distributive principles presuppose a bounded system of social rules that does not exist globally.
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    • 3.The absence of a global basic structure means global equality lacks the institutional preconditions that make domestic equality requirements action-guiding.
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    • 1.Democratic self-determination requires that distinct political communities retain authority to set their own distributive priorities.
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    • 2.Walzer's argument from shared meanings holds that distributive principles are internally generated by communities and cannot be legitimately imposed from outside.
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    • 3.Universalizing equality requirements across all societies colonizes the political space needed for genuine communal self-governance.
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    If equality matters morally, there is no principled basis for limiting...80%A global equality requirement imposes very demanding obligations on pr...79%A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive79%It would suffice to either defend the restriction of egalitarian requi...78%

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    The question, whether the requirement of equalizing people's condition applies within particular societies but not across societies on a global scale, might be thought to raise a rough dilemma for the normative attractiveness of any equality ideal. The dilemma arises in the following train of thought. On the one hand, there is no good basis for restricting the scope of equality. If equality matters, the group that should be made equal is people everywhere. On the other hand, a global equality re
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