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    It is not the case that States are responsible for promoting and protecting the health of individuals residing within their jurisdictions.

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    • 1.Health outcomes are substantially determined by individual choices, behaviors, and genetic factors that lie outside state control or legitimate state authority.
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    • 2.Responsibility for an outcome is only ascribable to an agent that has genuine causal power and normative authority over the conditions producing it.
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    • 3.Therefore, the state cannot bear primary responsibility for health where the determinative conditions are individual rather than structural.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory establishes that the state's legitimate function is limited to protecting negative rights against force, theft, and fraud.
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    • 2.Positive obligations to promote health require redistributive coercion — taxing some individuals to fund benefits for others — which violates their self-ownership rights.
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    • 3.A state that exceeds its minimal protective mandate by actively promoting health thereby violates the very individual rights it was instituted to protect.
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    • 1.Health is a human right.
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    • 2.States are the first guarantors of human rights.
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    • 3.As guarantors of human rights, states bear responsibility for the rights held by individuals within their jurisdictions.
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