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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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