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    Dworkin argues rights function as 'trumps' against utilit... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Not all liberties deserve equal protection; some liberties are more important than others.

    Dworkin argues rights function as 'trumps' against utilitarian calculation, requiring equal weight regardless of deliberative centrality.

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    • 1.Utilitarian aggregation permits systematic oppression of minorities if majority happiness increases sufficiently.
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    • 2.Rights as trumps protect fundamental human dignity by preventing individuals from being mere means to collective welfare.
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    • 3.Equal weight for all rights respects persons as moral agents with inviolable interests, not interchangeable utility units.
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    • 1.Rights-as-trumps doctrine provides no principled way to resolve conflicts when multiple fundamental rights collide.
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    • 2.Absolute rights constraints can produce worse outcomes than modest utilitarian adjustments, harming the very people rights protect.
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    • 3.Dworkin's equal weight requirement arbitrarily privileges certain rights over others without justifying why dignity requires this absolutism.
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