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    It is not the case that Members of the liberty tradition can endorse public health measures that prohibit people from harming others

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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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    • 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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