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    The state should recognize civil liberties and resist pat... — Carmelics
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    The state should recognize civil liberties and resist paternalism and moralism

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    • 1.Autonomy and self-determination are higher-order goods
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    • 2.Civil liberties are necessary conditions for reflective self-direction and self-realization
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    • 3.The good life consists in the exercise of capacities for practical deliberation
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    • 1.Communities require shared moral frameworks to sustain the social bonds that make individual liberty meaningful and possible.
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    • 2.The state has a legitimate interest in cultivating civic virtue and moral character, without which self-governance collapses into license.
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    • 3.Devlin's legal moralism demonstrates that tolerating practices corrosive to shared morality undermines the institutional preconditions for liberty itself.
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    • 1.Adaptive preference formation means individuals raised under unjust conditions may autonomously choose options that perpetuate their own subordination.
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    • 2.A state that is neutral between self-damaging and self-realizing choices under conditions of structural inequality effectively endorses the former.
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    By contrast, Mill is a perfectionist liberal who eschews neutrality about the good. According to Millian perfectionism, the good life is not defined in sectarian terms as consisting in a particular set of activities. Rather, the good life is understood in terms of the exercise of capacities for practical deliberation that can be realized in diverse, though limited, ways. Basic liberties are important because they are necessary conditions for this sort of reflective self-direction and self-realiz
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