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    The inability of libertarianism to endorse vaccine mandat... — Carmelics
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    The inability of libertarianism to endorse vaccine mandates counts against the plausibility of libertarianism, not against the legitimacy of vaccine mandates

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    • 1.Libertarianism's foundational commitment to non-harm (Mill, Nozick) is violated by unvaccinated individuals who foreseeably impose disease risk on immunocompromised neighbors.
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    • 2.If libertarianism cannot coherently prohibit actions that foreseeably harm non-consenting third parties, it fails on its own internal terms, not merely by external moral standards.
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    • 3.A framework that prohibits vaccine mandates while permitting other liberty-restricting public health measures reveals an internal inconsistency that undermines its theoretical credibility.
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    • 1.Rawlsian and communitarian critics (Sandel, Walzer) have documented that libertarianism systematically misconstrues the self as atomistic, ignoring the social conditions that make individual liberty possible.
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    • 2.Herd immunity is a public good constitutive of the social infrastructure without which individual liberty is practically unexercisable, making vaccine mandates liberty-enabling rather than liberty-restricting.
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    • 1.Libertarianism entails that vaccine mandates are unjustified infringements on individual liberty
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    • 2.Vaccine mandates are widely regarded as legitimate public health measures
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    • 3.When a theory yields a striking or implausible conclusion, that is evidence against the theory rather than against the conclusion's negation
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    As with the harm principle, those in the liberty tradition are not necessarily opposed to public health measures that prohibit people from harming others. Yet we might wonder whether the liberty tradition’s premium on individual liberty constrains various public health interventions that its proponents wish to endorse. An interesting boundary case concerns whether members of the liberty tradition can endorse vaccine mandates, especially for the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (Bernstein 2017; Bren
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