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    It is not the case that The liberal state's neutrality principle forbids privileging the 'exit-ready autonomous chooser' as a normative ideal over the 'embedded community member'.

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    • 1.Without privileging exit capacity, liberal states cannot protect individuals trapped in coercive communities that deny voice, dissent, or departure.
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    • 2.Neutrality itself is impossible; even refusing to privilege exit-readiness privileges embedded membership, violating genuine state neutrality.
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    • 3.The ability to exit communities is empirically necessary for people to negotiate unfair internal practices and maintain personal integrity within groups.
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    • 1.Privileging exit-ready autonomy implicitly devalues communities where members find meaning through non-chosen, inherited relationships and roles.
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    • 2.Liberal neutrality requires the state to not enforce one conception of the good life; treating autonomous choosers as the ideal imposes a specific vision.
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    • 3.Communities that sustain embedded membership (families, religious groups, cultures) generate goods that pure exit-optionality cannot replicate or measure.
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