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    It is not the case that The requirement of consistency with 'every reasonable conception of the good' is self-defeating, as many reasonable conceptions endorse illiberal communal arrangements.

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    • 1.'Reasonable' need not mean 'acceptable to include in shared institutions'—reasonableness and political legitimacy operate on different standards.
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    • 2.Liberalism can consistently prioritize individual freedoms as foundational without contradicting itself or requiring neutrality toward all conceptions.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'accommodating every conception' with 'respecting every conception as having equal claim to institutional support'.
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    • 1.Many historically and currently thriving societies embrace illiberal communal values as genuinely reasonable, not marginal aberrations.
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    • 2.A framework requiring accommodation of all reasonable conceptions while excluding illiberal ones contains an internal contradiction.
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    • 3.If liberalism cannot justify excluding reasonable illiberal views without begging the question, it cannot claim neutrality.
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