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    It is not the case that The U.S. has a remedial responsibility to create opportunities for the poor and minorities

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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