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    Voluntary transactions inevitably upset any fixed pattern... — Carmelics
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    Voluntary transactions inevitably upset any fixed pattern of distributive justice, even when no individual transaction is objectionable.

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    • 1.Individual transactions occur within institutional frameworks whose cumulative effects are foreseeable and structurally reproduced, not merely accidental.
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    • 2.Rawls's difference principle applies to the basic structure of society, not isolated acts, because only institutions can correct systematic distributive drift.
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    • 3.When voluntary exchanges reliably concentrate wealth regardless of starting point, the pattern reveals a structural tendency that no single actor's consent can legitimate.
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    • 1.G.A. Cohen argues that Nozick conflates the justice of individual acts with the justice of the social pattern those acts jointly and predictably produce.
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    • 2.A sequence of locally unobjectionable moves can constitute a collectively objectionable outcome if agents are aware of the aggregate trajectory, as in collective action problems.
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    • 1.Suppose society achieves a distribution that satisfies any preferred principle of justice.
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    • 2.Thousands of people voluntarily each pay Wilt Chamberlain a dollar to watch him play basketball.
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    • 3.Wilt Chamberlain becomes wealthy, disrupting the formerly just distribution.
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    The problem with patterned principles is that, in Nozick’s words, liberty upsets patterns. “No end-state principle or distributional patterned principle of justice can be continuously realized without continuous interference with people’s lives” (1974: 163). To illustrate, Nozick asks you to imagine that society achieves a pattern of perfect justice by the lights of whatever principle you prefer. Then someone offers Wilt Chamberlain a dollar for the privilege of watching Wilt play basketball. Be
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    When voluntary exchanges reliably concentrate wealth regardless of starting poin...
    Wilt Chamberlain becomes wealthy, disrupting the formerly just distribution.
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