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    It is not the case that Political skepticism is necessary in moral and political life

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    • 1.Democratic legitimacy requires citizens to act on substantive moral commitments, not merely probabilistic hedges about value.
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    • 2.A polity of thoroughgoing skeptics lacks the motivational resources to resist genuine injustice, as Dewey argued against Russell's own skeptical tendencies.
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    • 3.Skepticism about political values is therefore self-undermining: it erodes the normative ground on which anti-persecution arguments themselves depend.
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    • 1.Rawls demonstrated that overlapping consensus on political principles is achievable without requiring metaphysical skepticism as its foundation.
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    • 2.If non-skeptical citizens can converge on anti-persecutory norms through reasonable pluralism, skepticism is not necessary but merely sufficient at best.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Dogmatism leads to cruelty by inflating the expected utility of persecuting policies
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    • 2.Skepticism corrects the tendency to overestimate certainty
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    • 3.Correcting overconfidence reduces the justification for persecuting policies
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