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    It is not the case that The scope of equality requirements cannot be justifiably restricted to particular societies alone

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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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    • 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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