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    It is not the case that State interventions beyond anti-discrimination enforcement violate the self-ownership rights of individuals in educational and labor markets.

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    • 1.Historical discrimination created structural inequalities that voluntary markets alone haven't remedied, justifying corrective intervention.
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    • 2.Self-ownership doesn't entail absolute property rights; duties to ensure fair opportunity don't violate autonomy but enable it.
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    • 3.Markets themselves involve state enforcement (contracts, property law), so distinguishing 'intervention' from baseline rules is conceptually unclear.
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    • 1.Individuals have fundamental rights to control their own labor, capital, and choices without coercive redistribution by the state.
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    • 2.Beyond stopping discrimination, state mandates (affirmative action, wage controls) force some to serve others' goals against their will.
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    • 3.Voluntary market competition and private remedies for discrimination better respect autonomy than paternalistic state intervention.
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