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    It is not the case that Not all liberties deserve equal protection; some liberties are more important than others.

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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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    • 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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