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    A policy is legitimate only if it is justifiable by publi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A soda tax is illegitimate under the restrictive motivational-set conception of public reason liberalism, if the health argument is its only justification.

    A policy is legitimate only if it is justifiable by public reasons to idealized citizens.

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    Others, by contrast, argue for more restrictive conceptions of public reasons. For instance, one popular theory of public reason liberalism claims that a reason is public if and only if it is compatible with the ‘motivational set’ – which includes desires, dispositions of evaluation, and patterns of emotional reaction – of each (idealized) person (Bonotti and Barnhill 2019). Given that at least a few (idealized) people will have a motivational set that is incompatible with reasons offered in def

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