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    Libertarians hold that interference with free and equal p... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Vaccine mandates are not justifiable within the libertarian framework

    Libertarians hold that interference with free and equal persons for the sake of overall benefit is illegitimate

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    As with the harm principle, those in the liberty tradition are not necessarily opposed to public health measures that prohibit people from harming others. Yet we might wonder whether the liberty tradition’s premium on individual liberty constrains various public health interventions that its proponents wish to endorse. An interesting boundary case concerns whether members of the liberty tradition can endorse vaccine mandates, especially for the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (Bernstein 2017; Bren

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