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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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