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    It is not the case that Therefore, the state cannot bear primary responsibility for health where the determinative conditions are individual rather than structural.

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    • 1.Individual choices themselves are shaped by structural factors (poverty, education access, food deserts); the distinction between 'individual' and 'structural' is artificial.
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    • 2.States create structural conditions enabling or constraining individual choice; this makes them partially responsible even for 'individual' decisions.
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    • 3.Primary responsibility and contributing responsibility are different; states can bear primary responsibility for conditions enabling healthier individual choices.
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    • 1.Individual choices (diet, exercise, smoking) are primary drivers of health outcomes and fall outside state's legitimate coercive authority.
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    • 2.States lack efficient means to enforce behavioral change; responsibility requires actual capacity to control the determinative conditions.
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    • 3.Assigning primary responsibility where control is absent creates false accountability and diverts resources from structural interventions.
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