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    Membership-based legitimacy means the state's coercive au... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The fact that a particular state coerces a person does not establish a presumption that the state's coercive scheme must be specially tailored to that person's interests.

    Membership-based legitimacy means the state's coercive authority is conditioned on substantive responsiveness to each member's basic interests, not merely collective welfare.

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    • 1.Coercive systems that ignore individuals' basic interests violate their dignity and treat them as mere means to collective ends.
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    • 2.States claiming legitimacy while systematically neglecting minorities' core needs lack moral authority to enforce compliance.
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    • 3.Consent to authority is meaningfully absent when members' vital interests are routinely subordinated to aggregate welfare.
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    • 1.Defining 'basic interests' objectively is deeply contested; what counts as basic varies across cultures and individuals.
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    • 2.Requiring responsiveness to every member's interests makes collective decision-making paralyzed or impossible to implement.
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    • 3.Collective welfare and individual basic interests often align; prioritizing individuals doesn't guarantee better outcomes for them.
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