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    It is not the case that When background conditions (labor markets, inherited wealth, systemic discrimination) are the dominant causal factors, individual causal contribution is insufficient to ground remedial responsibility.

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    • 1.Individuals retain causal agency even within constraining structures; background conditions influence but don't eliminate personal responsibility.
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    • 2.If individuals bear no responsibility when embedded in systems, no one becomes responsible—creating a responsibility vacuum that blocks all remedies.
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    • 3.Background conditions are themselves produced by countless past individual choices; denying individual causal contribution obscures this history.
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    • 1.Remedial responsibility requires agents have meaningful control over outcomes; structural factors eliminate this control for disadvantaged groups.
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    • 2.Holding individuals responsible for systemic effects incentivizes blaming victims and deflects from reforms that would actually reduce harm.
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    • 3.Justice demands proportionality: punishing individuals for harms they didn't substantially cause violates fair distribution of burdens.
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