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    Universal equality of opportunity as a social norm can be... — Carmelics
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    Universal equality of opportunity as a social norm can be effectively enforced through enlightened public opinion expressed in attitudes and private sphere choices.

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    • 1.Social norms can be enforced by mechanisms other than the state.
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    • 2.Enlightened public opinion can express itself through attitudes and private sphere choices.
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    • 3.Such expression constitutes an enforcement mechanism for social norms.
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    • 1.Private sphere choices aggregating into discriminatory patterns constitute structural injustice even when no individual act is malicious (Young, 1990).
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    • 2.Structural injustice cannot be corrected by the same decentralized private choices that produce it, since those choices lack coordinating mechanisms.
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    • 3.Therefore, relying on private attitudes to enforce equality of opportunity reproduces rather than remedies the structural conditions it aims to correct.
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    • 1.Rawls argues that the basic structure of society, not individual conduct, is the primary subject of justice because it shapes life prospects from birth.
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    • 2.Enforcement of equality of opportunity through public opinion leaves the basic structure—hiring institutions, inheritance law, residential zoning—untouched.
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    • 3.A norm enforcement mechanism that bypasses the basic structure cannot achieve the distributive aim equality of opportunity requires.
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    State enforcement of universal formal equality of opportunity in its private sphere applications would almost certainly do more harm than good. However, the fact that we do not want the police arresting people who choose friends on some allegedly prejudiced basis does not rule out enforcement of this universal social norm. Enforcement of social norms including this one might be carried out effectively by enlightened public opinion expressing itself in attitudes and private sphere choices. One mi
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