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    Supports→Using stigma as a public health tool is unjust when the targeted behavior is caused by unjust social structures.

    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework holds that blame is only warranted when an agent acts from an exemption-free exercise of will; structural coercion constitutes such an exemption.

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    Exemption-free(as describing when an action is truly within someone's control)
    Without any valid excuse or reason that would get someone off the hook; completely responsible.
    Exercise of will(as the basis for whether someone deserves blame)
    The act of making a choice or decision through your own decision-making ability.
    P.F. Strawson(as the author of 'Freedom and Resentment')
    A 20th-century British philosopher famous for analyzing how we actually think and talk about everyday things like freedom and blame, rather than abstract theories.
    Warranted(describes when inferences are legitimate)
    Justified or well-supported; having good reasons to believe something is true.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)

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    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    blame(Scanlon's contractualist account)
    A reactive attitude directed at the attitudes a person actually holds, not a judgment about whether the person could have done otherwise.
    reactive attitudes(Blame is given as the paradigm case of a reactive attitude)
    Attitudes that agents have towards other agents in response to those agents' behavior
    structural coercion(used by some public reason theorists to expand the scope of what counts as coercion requiring public justification)
    A broadened conception of coercion that extends beyond direct legal compulsion to include systemic or structural constraints on individuals

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