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    Coercive state institutions lack the moral standing to im... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Punishment is justified as a means of teaching a moral lesson to those who commit crimes, and perhaps to community members more generally.

    Coercive state institutions lack the moral standing to impose 'lessons' on autonomous rational agents without their consent.

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    • 1.Autonomy requires the capacity to form and pursue one's own conception of the good life without external direction.
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    • 2.Coercive imposition of lessons treats rational agents as means to state ends, violating their status as self-governing.
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    • 3.Legitimate authority requires consent from those subject to it; coercion without consent lacks this legitimacy.
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    • 1.Autonomy itself depends on background conditions—education, health, rule of law—that states must coercively maintain.
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    • 2.Rational agents sometimes lack information about consequences; paternalistic lessons can enhance rather than diminish autonomy.
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    • 3.Complete non-coercion is impossible in social coordination; the question is whose values coercion serves, not whether it exists.
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