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    It is not the case that Government policy should not be justified by appeal to the claim that some controversial conception of the good is superior to another

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    • It is wrong for government to impose policies that can only be justified by appeal to contested value rankings among conceptions of the good
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    • 1.Citizens in pluralist societies hold irreconcilably different comprehensive doctrines that cannot be adjudicated by neutral reason (Rawls, Political Liberalism).
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    • 2.Legitimate political authority requires justification acceptable to all reasonable citizens, not merely those who share the governing conception of the good.
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    • 3.Policies grounded in contested conceptions of the good coerce dissenters on terms they have no rational basis to accept, violating their status as free and equal persons.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle establishes that the only legitimate basis for collective coercion is preventing harm to others, not enforcing contested visions of human flourishing.
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    • 2.When the state endorses one conception of the good over rivals, it structurally advantages adherents of that conception, distorting the fair political equality of citizens.
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