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    Members of the liberty tradition can endorse public healt... — Carmelics
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    Members of the liberty tradition can endorse public health measures that prohibit people from harming others

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    • 1.The harm principle permits restricting liberty when individuals harm other individuals
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    • 2.Public health measures that prevent harm to others fall within the scope of the harm principle
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle requires that harm to others be direct, certain, and not merely probabilistic or aggregated across populations.
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    • 2.Most public health measures target statistical or diffuse harms rather than identifiable harm between specific individuals.
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    • 3.Therefore, public health interventions cannot be straightforwardly justified under the harm principle without expanding it beyond Mill's original intent.
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    • 1.Nozick's libertarianism holds that rights are side-constraints that prohibit using individuals as means to aggregate social benefits, even harm reduction.
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    • 2.Mandatory public health measures impose costs on non-consenting individuals to produce population-level outcomes, violating this side-constraint structure.
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    • 3.Endorsing such measures from within the liberty tradition requires abandoning the anti-aggregative core that distinguishes it from utilitarian public health reasoning.
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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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