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    If anti-harming restrictions prevent harm by targeting th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The harm-prevention rationale justifies greater restrictions on liberty than the anti-harming rationale

    If anti-harming restrictions prevent harm by targeting the causal source, the two rationales are extensionally equivalent in scope, not hierarchically ordered.

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    • 1.Harm prevention via causal sources achieves identical practical outcomes as direct harm-targeting restrictions.
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    • 2.When two interventions prevent the same harms in the same cases, claiming hierarchy between them lacks empirical grounding.
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    • 3.Extensional equivalence in scope means both rationales capture identical prohibited conduct, making priority claims conceptually empty.
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    • 1.Causal-source restrictions may prevent harms indirectly or probabilistically, while direct restrictions prevent harms categorically.
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    • 2.Two rationales can have identical scope but different normative force—hierarchy concerns justification strength, not merely coverage.
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    • 3.Extensional equivalence requires proving both restrict identical conduct in all contexts, which causal targeting may not satisfy universally.
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