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    It is not the case that The state should recognize civil liberties and resist paternalism and moralism

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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