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    It is not the case that Institutions relying on authority, hierarchy, and domination are rarely justified.

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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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    • 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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