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    Institutions relying on authority, hierarchy, and dominat... — Carmelics
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    Institutions relying on authority, hierarchy, and domination are rarely justified.

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    • 1.Wolff's 'In Defense of Anarchism' establishes that autonomous moral agency is categorically incompatible with binding political authority.
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    • 2.Institutions requiring deference to authority systematically erode the autonomous reasoning that constitutes moral personhood.
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    • 3.If moral autonomy is constitutive of personhood, then institutions that undermine it lack the legitimacy needed to justify their existence.
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    • 1.Kropotkin's mutual aid thesis demonstrates empirically that cooperative, non-hierarchical social organization has historically outperformed coercive structures in promoting welfare.
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    • 2.If non-hierarchical alternatives reliably achieve equivalent or superior social outcomes, the consequentialist burden of proof for coercive institutions cannot be met.
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    • 1.There is a prima facie case against authority, hierarchy, and domination.
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    • 2.Such institutions bear a heavy burden of proof to show their justification under existing conditions.
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    • 3.Only an overriding consideration such as deprivation or threat could meet that burden.
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    Such institutions face a heavy burden of proof: it must be shown that under existing conditions, perhaps because of some overriding consideration of deprivation or threat, some form of authority, hierarchy, and domination is justified, despite the prima facie case against it—a burden that can rarely be met. (Chomsky 2005: 174)
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