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    The U.S. has a remedial responsibility to create opportun... — Carmelics
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    The U.S. has a remedial responsibility to create opportunities for the poor and minorities

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    • 1.The U.S. was causally responsible for poverty and racism in the past
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    • 2.Causal responsibility for harm grounds forward-looking (remedial) responsibility
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that rectificatory duties require traceable, identifiable chains of specific injustice to specific victims.
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    • 2.Contemporary poverty and inequality result from so many intervening causal factors that a direct remedial link to historical state action cannot be established.
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    • 3.Where causal responsibility is too diffuse to assign, remedial responsibility grounded in that causation is correspondingly undermined.
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    • 1.Collective entities like states lack the unified agency required to bear moral responsibility in the way individuals do (Held, French).
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    • 2.Without genuine collective agency, remedial obligations must reduce to individual obligations, which cannot coherently aggregate into state-level duties.
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    Causal responsibility for harm grounds forward-looking (remedial) responsibilityCollective entities like states lack the unified agency required to bear moral r...Contemporary poverty and inequality result from so many intervening causal facto...Nozick's entitlement theory holds that rectificatory duties require traceable, i...
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    We have extensive duties to assist the global poor.74%The poor are causally responsible for many of their own problems73%The U.S. was causally responsible for poverty and racism in the past72%Affirmative responsibilities are mostly conditional implications of th...72%

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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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