  The social interactionist arguments just canvassed purport to show that special egalitarian justice requirements apply among members of a nation state and require equality only among those members. The arguments do not attempt to show that no egalitarian justice requirements hold across national borders. These cross-border requirements are presumably triggered by a morally mandatory beneficence requirement that gives special priority to helping people, the worse off they are, or by a luck egalitarian principle such as the following: It is morally bad—unjust and unfair—if some are worse off than others through no fault or choice of their own. The weightier the special egalitarian obligations that the social interactionist sees holding country by country, and the less weighty the general egalitarianism that is perceived to hold across countries, the more the social interactionist approach will conflict with general egalitarian equality of condition doctrines that are claimed to have global scope.