“This argument doesn’t work against more sophisticated forms of anti-cosmopolitanism, however.”
I’m sorry but luck egalitarianism, the conception of moral responsibility implicit in your first paragraph, cannot be refuted; it’s partly an uncontroversial empirical claim on the causal determinants of social agents, but largely a claim on intuition. Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see how it could ‘fail to work’ in itself, absent you simply disagreeing with it at first principle (which is fine, obviously).
“This argument doesn’t work against more sophisticated forms of anti-cosmopolitanism, however.”
I’m sorry but luck egalitarianism, the conception of moral responsibility implicit in your first paragraph, cannot be refuted; it’s partly an uncontroversial empirical claim on the causal determinants of social agents, but largely a claim on intuition. Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see how it could ‘fail to work’ in itself, absent you simply disagreeing with it at first principle (which is fine, obviously).