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    It is not the case that It can be justified to incapacitate dangerous offenders even if they are not morally responsible for what they have done or for the danger they present.

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    • 1.Quarantine confines persons solely to prevent transmission of a biological agent, not to respond to any action or judgment about character.
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    • 2.Incarcerating offenders—even those lacking moral responsibility—necessarily responds to their agency and conduct, making the quarantine analogy structurally disanalogous.
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    • 3.Treating persons as dangerous objects to be warehoused based on predicted future conduct violates Kantian constraints against using persons merely as means.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework holds that excusing an agent from moral responsibility demands we adopt the 'objective stance' toward them.
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    • 2.The objective stance, as Strawson argued, is itself a form of exclusion from the moral community that cannot be fully reconciled with punitive or quasi-punitive incapacitation.
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    • 3.Incapacitating a non-responsible agent while maintaining coercive institutional force against them is internally incoherent within any framework that grounds legitimate detention in agency.
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    • 1.It can arguably be justified to quarantine someone carrying a transmissible disease even if that person is not morally responsible for the threat they pose.
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    • 2.Incapacitating dangerous offenders can be modeled on the same justification as public health quarantines.
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