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    Not all liberties deserve equal protection; some libertie... — Carmelics
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    Not all liberties deserve equal protection; some liberties are more important than others.

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    • 1.Mill defends individual liberties by appeal to deliberative values.
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    • 2.Different liberties play different roles in practical deliberation.
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    • 3.Liberties that are more central to the selection of personal ideals deserve greater protection than those that are not.
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    • 1.Dworkin argues rights function as 'trumps' against utilitarian calculation, requiring equal weight regardless of deliberative centrality.
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    • 2.Ranking liberties by deliberative importance smuggles in a perfectionist hierarchy that Mill's anti-paternalism explicitly rejects.
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    • 3.A liberal framework that grades freedoms by their role in 'selecting personal ideals' privileges certain conceptions of the good over others.
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    • 1.Hayek contends that liberty is indivisible: selective protection creates arbitrary state power over which activities count as sufficiently deliberative.
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    • 2.No neutral procedure exists for ranking liberties by deliberative centrality without the ranker imposing their own conception of valuable agency.
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    Though these liberties evidently include quite a bit, there is no suggestion here that any and all liberty deserves protection. Why not? Insofar as Mill defends individual liberties by appeal to deliberative values, he can distinguish the importance of different liberties in terms of their role in practical deliberation. A central part of practical deliberation is forming ideals and regulating one’s actions and plans in accordance with these ideals. But some liberties seem more central than othe
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