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    It is wrong for government to impose policies that can on... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Government policy should not be justified by appeal to the claim that some controversial conception of the good is superior to another

    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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    A third feature of the capability approach that has elicited criticism is the idea that knowledge of human flourishing and what facilitates it must inform the identification of an adequate equality norm. The worry in a nutshell is that in modern societies that secure wide freedoms, people will embrace many opposed conceptions of how to live and of what is choiceworthy in human life. These are matters about which we must agree to disagree. At least if an ideal of equality is being constructed to

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