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    It is not the case that A person can be unfree even when experiencing no actual interference

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    • 1.Freedom is properly understood as the absence of actual interference with deliberate human action, as Berlin and Hobbes argue in the negative liberty tradition.
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    • 2.Counterfactual possibilities of interference describe a feature of one's social situation, not one's liberty, which is an empirical rather than modal property.
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    • 3.Conflating unfreedom with mere vulnerability to interference illicitly expands the concept of freedom until it becomes indistinguishable from security or power.
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    • 1.Pettit's non-domination framework smuggles in a normative judgment about illegitimate power structures under the guise of a descriptive freedom concept.
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    • 2.The benevolent master case intuition depends on our antecedent moral condemnation of slavery, not on any constraint to the slave's actual action-space.
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    • 3.If subjection to potential arbitrary power constitutes unfreedom, then virtually all citizens under any government are unfree, rendering the concept analytically inert.
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    • 1.Freedom as non-domination depends on the capacity of another to interfere arbitrarily, not on whether interference actually occurs
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    • 2.A slave of a benevolent master experiences no interference yet remains subject to the master's arbitrary power
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