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    It is not the case that Many routine state practices—taxation, conscription, quarantine—intentionally burden individuals without requiring extraordinary justification.

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    • 1.Routine practices still require *some* justification; describing burden as 'routine' doesn't eliminate the state's obligation to provide moral reasoning.
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    • 2.Many burdens fall unequally (wealth-based taxation, draft exemptions for privileged); routineness masks distributive injustice rather than resolving it.
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    • 3.History shows governments abuse 'routine' authority (discriminatory quarantines, selective conscription); absence of extraordinary justification enables rights violations.
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    • 1.Collective goods (national defense, public health, infrastructure) require burden-sharing; individual consent cannot be precondition for every contribution.
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    • 2.Requiring 'extraordinary justification' for routine governance would paralyze state function and make basic social coordination impossible.
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    • 3.Citizens benefit from stable institutions even if they sometimes bear costs; reasonable burdens are implicit in membership in organized society.
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