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    It is not the case that Liberties of speech, association, worship, and choice of profession are more important than liberties such as driving the wrong way on a one-way street, not wearing a seat belt, or disposing of gross income freely.

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    • 1.Economic liberties, including disposal of gross income, are constitutive of self-authorship and property rights no less than expressive liberties, as Nozick argues in Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
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    • 2.A principled liberty hierarchy cannot treat economic self-determination as categorically less important than speech without presupposing a contested perfectionist ranking of human activities.
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    • 3.If the state may restrict income disposal for redistributive ends, the same paternalist logic permits restricting speech deemed socially harmful, collapsing the proposed hierarchy.
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    • 1.Traffic regulations and safety mandates directly protect third parties from physical harm, satisfying Mill's own harm principle as a legitimate basis for restriction.
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    • 2.If so-called minor liberties are already justifiably limited by harm prevention, they are not genuinely comparable cases to speech restrictions, making the hierarchy a false contrast rather than a principled ranking.
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    • 1.A central part of practical deliberation is forming ideals and regulating one's actions in accordance with those ideals.
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    • 2.Restrictions on liberties of speech, association, worship, and choice of profession interfere more with deliberations about what sort of person to be than restrictions on traffic rules, safety regulations, or income disposal.
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    • 3.The importance of a liberty is proportional to its role in enabling deliberation about personal ideals.
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