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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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