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    Mandatory public health measures impose costs on non-cons... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Members of the liberty tradition can endorse public health measures that prohibit people from harming others

    Mandatory public health measures impose costs on non-consenting individuals to produce population-level outcomes, violating this side-constraint structure.

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    • 1.Individual rights function as side-constraints that cannot be overridden by aggregate utility, even for public health benefits.
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    • 2.Coercing medical or behavioral compliance on unwilling persons treats them as mere means to collective ends, violating their autonomy.
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    • 3.Voluntary alternatives (education, incentives, opt-outs) should be exhausted before imposing costs on non-consenting individuals.
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    • 1.All individual rights exist within social contexts where others' actions create harms; pure side-constraints ignore negative externalities.
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    • 2.Preventing disease transmission protects others' bodily integrity, making mandatory measures defensive rather than rights-violating impositions.
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    • 3.Non-participation in public health measures imposes costs on vulnerable populations; constraints on the infectious protect the constrained.
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