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    The service conception of authority holds that states bet... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→One is not required to obey a state solely because the state has issued a command.

    The service conception of authority holds that states better enable subjects to conform to right reason than individual judgment alone.

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    • 1.Individual reasoning is systematically prone to cognitive biases, self-interest, and limited information access that impair judgment.
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    • 2.State institutions aggregate expertise, knowledge, and deliberative processes superior to what isolated individuals can achieve.
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    • 3.Coordinated legal frameworks solve collective action problems that prevent individuals from achieving their own reasoned ends.
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    • 1.State actors face their own systemic incentives (power, revenue, ideology) that distort institutional judgment as much as individual bias.
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    • 2.Moral reasoning requires personal judgment; delegating it to authorities undermines the autonomy necessary for genuine ethical agency.
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    • 3.History shows states frequently enforce demonstrably irrational and immoral rules, contradicting the claim they better align with right reason.
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