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    It is not the case that Therefore, self-interest rationales for global health cooperation can be fully justified on Rawlsian 'Law of Peoples' grounds without invoking global structural justice.

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    • 1.Rawls's LoP still requires assistance to burdened societies, implying structural justice duties that self-interest alone cannot fully satisfy.
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    • 2.Health inequalities reflect colonial/economic structures; framing cooperation as pure self-interest obscures unjust global background conditions.
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    • 3.Global health externalities (antimicrobial resistance, emerging pathogens) require coordinated capacity-building that exceeds narrow self-interest incentives.
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    • 1.Rawls's LoP permits stable well-ordered peoples to cooperate on mutually beneficial terms without duty to restructure global institutions.
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    • 2.Disease containment and pandemic prevention directly serve each nation's security interests, justifying cooperation without justice-based rationale.
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    • 3.Self-interested health cooperation can satisfy the LoP's duty of assistance by helping burdened societies become well-ordered members.
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