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    Upholding LPF equal opportunity is compatible with a broa... — Carmelics
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    Upholding LPF equal opportunity is compatible with a broader theory of justice that also favors more and better opportunities for people.

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    • 1.One can uphold LPF equal opportunity as one component of justice without insisting it is the entirety of justice.
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    • 2.Justice might simultaneously favor equality of opportunity and favor expanding the quantity and quality of opportunities available to people.
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    • 1.Expanding opportunities requires redistributive interventions that structurally undermine the formal procedural neutrality LPF equal opportunity demands.
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    • 2.LPF equal opportunity presupposes a fixed competitive structure; policies that alter the opportunity landscape change the rules mid-contest, violating LPF's core logic.
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    • 3.Nozick's entitlement theory demonstrates that patterned outcomes from opportunity expansion necessarily violate side-constraints that formal procedural fairness itself entails.
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    • 1.Rawls argued that LPF equal opportunity is lexically subordinate to the difference principle, meaning its compatibility with broader justice claims is already architecturally constrained.
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    • 2.If LPF equal opportunity is merely one component among competing principles, its determinate action-guidance collapses into an indeterminate pluralism that cannot adjudicate real conflicts.
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    Since Roemer does not offer a full theory of justice within which his LPF version of equality of opportunity would be included, one cannot say what sort of social hierarchy he envisions, fair access to which is to be regulated by this level playing field conception of equality of opportunity. (He might be espousing a radical version of substantive equality of opportunity or instead uphold the background idea that equality of condition should be sustained unless considerations of personal respons
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