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    Libertarian rights theory permits interference to prevent... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Vaccine mandates are not justifiable within the libertarian framework

    Libertarian rights theory permits interference to prevent non-consensual harm imposition, not merely to aggregate social benefit.

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    • 1.Non-consensual harm violates the victim's foundational right to bodily autonomy and self-determination.
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    • 2.Preventing harm protects individual rights; aggregating benefits merely optimizes outcomes, which are categorically different.
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    • 3.Libertarian theory grounds rights in individual agency, making consent-violation the relevant moral threshold, not utility calculations.
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    • 1.Defining 'harm' objectively is deeply contested; libertarians disagree on what counts as non-consensual interference requiring prevention.
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    • 2.The claim conflates preventing harm with justifying interference; preventing harm doesn't automatically justify all proposed interventions.
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    • 3.Many libertarian theorists (Nozick included) accept rights-violations to prevent catastrophic harms, blurring the harm/benefit distinction.
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