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    It is not the case that The fact that a particular state coerces a person does not establish a presumption that the state's coercive scheme must be specially tailored to that person's interests.

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    • 1.Coercion that is systematic and inescapable creates a relation of domination that demands justification to the dominated individual specifically.
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    • 2.A scheme of coercion can only be legitimate if its basic terms could be accepted by those subject to it, making individual justifiability a condition of legitimacy.
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    • 3.Rawls's 'circumstances of justice' entail that persons who are bound by a coercive scheme are owed reasons addressed to their particular standing as free and equal persons.
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    • 1.Michael Walzer's sphere sovereignty holds that coercive state power draws its legitimacy from membership, which carries reciprocal obligations tailored to members' shared understandings.
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    • 2.Membership-based legitimacy means the state's coercive authority is conditioned on substantive responsiveness to each member's basic interests, not merely collective welfare.
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    • 1.The sheer fact of being coerced by the state one inhabits does not generate special justice claims on that particular state.
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    • 2.Coercion requires adequate moral justification, not necessarily special responsiveness to the coerced individual's interests.
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