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    It is not the case that The liberal conception of freedom as non-interference is insufficient for assessing unfreedom

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    • 1.Freedom as non-interference only counts a person as unfree when interference actually occurs
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    • 2.A slave of a benevolent master is unfree despite experiencing no interference
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    • 3.Any adequate conception of freedom must account for cases where domination exists without active interference
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    • 1.Philip Pettit's republican conception shows freedom requires absence of arbitrary power to interfere, not merely absence of actual interference.
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    • 2.Structural conditions that make interference possible constrain rational agency even when the powerful choose restraint.
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    • 3.A person who must strategically defer, self-censor, or curry favor to avoid potential interference is unfree regardless of whether interference occurs.
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    • 1.Isaiah Berlin's own analysis concedes that the range and quality of options matters, not merely their formal availability without interference.
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    • 2.Non-interference frameworks systematically misidentify poverty, oppressive social norms, and systemic exclusion as mere incapacity rather than unfreedom, obscuring their political character.
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