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    Policies that single out certain behaviors as irresponsible health decisions are undermotivated or discriminatory

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    • 1.John Stuart Mill's harm principle holds that liberty may only be restricted to prevent harm to others, not to enforce paternalistic conceptions of self-regarding health choices.
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    • 2.Singling out specific behaviors as 'irresponsible' presupposes a contestable normative standard of health conduct that liberal neutrality between conceptions of the good life prohibits the state from enforcing.
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    • 3.When the state designates certain behaviors as irresponsible, it exercises symbolic power that stigmatizes practitioners without establishing a principled threshold distinguishing targeted from equally costly untargeted behaviors.
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    • 1.Norman Daniels' just health framework grounds health policy in fair equality of opportunity, requiring that interventions address structural determinants rather than individualizing systemic failures as personal irresponsibility.
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    • 2.Epidemiological evidence consistently shows that behaviors labeled irresponsible—poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, substance use—are strongly predicted by socioeconomic deprivation, meaning behavioral framing misattributes structural causation to individual agency.
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    • 3.Holding individuals responsible for outcomes they lack genuine capacity to avoid violates the luck egalitarian condition, defended by G.A. Cohen, that only brute luck inequalities rather than option luck warrant redistributive correction.
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    • 1.Once the myriad ways in which individuals impose health costs on one another is recognized, focusing on only certain behaviors lacks sufficient justification
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    • 2.Behaviors often condemned as irresponsible health decisions in public health policymaking are frequently associated with disadvantaged or marginalized groups
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    • 3.The New York sugary beverage tax applied to soda but not to more expensive but equally sugary beverages such as frappuccinos, demonstrating disparate impact
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    Many, however, object to these lines of argument. Some grant that individuals are responsible for their risky health decisions but deny that this licenses the conclusion that justice requires the sorts of policies just described. These critics articulate alternative ways for people to bear the costs of their decisions, including, for example, allowing people who engage in risky behaviors to self-insure in some way (Flanigan 2014b). A different line of argument, specific to the financing of healt
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