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    It is not the case that A nation's epidemiological self-interest in preventing pandemic spillover is causally prior to and separable from judgments about global distributive justice.

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    • 1.Effective pandemic prevention requires trust and cooperation that only arise when nations perceive the distribution of burden as fair.
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    • 2.Separating spillover prevention from justice ignores how vaccine hoarding and inequitable access actively worsen future pandemic risk.
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    • 3.The framing of 'self-interest' already embeds contestable choices about whose interests count—a prior moral judgment, not a neutral fact.
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    • 1.Pandemic prevention requires rapid unilateral action before global consensus forms, making it logically prior to distributive negotiations.
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    • 2.A nation can rationally pursue disease containment even if indifferent to global equity—self-interest doesn't depend on justice frameworks.
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    • 3.Epidemiological causation (virus transmission chains) is independent from moral causation (distributive obligations), so facts precede values.
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