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    Moralistic restrictions targeting social-fabric dissoluti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Restrictions on liberty that can only be justified by moralism or paternalism are impermissible.

    Moralistic restrictions targeting social-fabric dissolution are therefore reducible to harm prevention under a sufficiently robust conception of harm.

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    • 1.Social cohesion is instrumentally necessary for individual welfare; its dissolution causes measurable harms like violence, poverty, and psychological distress.
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    • 2.A harm conception including relational goods (trust, cooperation, shared meaning) captures what moralists intuitively protect without requiring non-naturalistic values.
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    • 3.Many moral prohibitions (against betrayal, deception, covenant-breaking) track predictable social-structural damages, making reducibility explanatorily superior to positing independent moral facts.
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    • 1.Defining 'social-fabric dissolution' requires prior normative commitments about which social forms are valuable—this presupposes rather than grounds moral judgment.
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    • 2.Some moralistic restrictions (sexual propriety norms, purity codes) persist independently of measurable social harm, suggesting irreducibility to harm prevention.
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    • 3.Even if social stability matters, restrictions on individual liberty may cause foreseeable harms exceeding social benefits, making the reduction empirically contestable rather than conceptually sound.
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