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    It is not the case that Public health institutions are legitimate authorities

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    • 1.Legitimate authority requires that subjects have an obligation to obey, which Raz's service conception grounds in the authority actually improving compliance with right reason.
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    • 2.Public health institutions systematically exclude affected communities from agenda-setting, undermining the epistemic conditions that would make deference to expertise obligatory rather than merely prudent.
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    • 3.When institutions fail the normal justification threshold—as CDC messaging failures during COVID-19 illustrate—their claim to authority collapses into bare power, not legitimate command.
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    • 1.Buchanan and Keohane's pluralist account holds that legitimacy requires minimal democratic accountability, transparency, and internal checks against self-interested institutional behavior.
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    • 2.Regulatory capture, documented in FDA approval processes by Braithwaite and others, shows public health agencies systematically serving industry interests over public welfare.
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    • 3.An institution whose outputs are structurally biased toward powerful private actors cannot satisfy the beneficence conditions invoked in P1–P4, defeating the consequentialist legitimation strategy from within.
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    • 1.Public health institutions produce benefits that individuals experience but cannot secure for themselves acting alone
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    • 2.These benefits are important enough to overcome the presumption against interfering with free and equal persons
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    • 3.Regulatory agencies such as the CDC and FDA possess the expertise and authority to respond to epidemics and ensure only safe and effective drugs reach the public
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