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    Classifying harm as sufficient for regulation without a r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→When an individual's private activities cause harm to others, the state may be justified in regulating those activities.

    Classifying harm as sufficient for regulation without a rights-violation framework permits paternalistic overreach inconsistent with individual sovereignty.

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    • 1.Individual sovereignty requires that people retain authority over decisions affecting their own lives absent clear rights violations.
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    • 2.Harm-based regulation without rights frameworks allows majorities to restrict minority choices deemed 'harmful' by subjective standards.
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    • 3.Paternalistic policies treating adults as incapable of weighing their own risks undermine the autonomy necessary for self-determination.
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    • 1.Some harms (pollution, infectious disease, workplace hazards) externally affect non-consenting parties, justifying regulation independent of rights language.
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    • 2.Rights frameworks themselves require prior normative commitments and don't eliminate difficult boundary questions about permissible regulation.
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    • 3.Absolute sovereignty claims ignore that all individuals exist in interdependent systems where pure non-interference is conceptually impossible.
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