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    It is not the case that Unconditional hospitality requires welcoming all others without condition, judgment, or documentation

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    • 1.Hobbes and Locke establish that political communities require bounded membership to sustain the reciprocal obligations that make rights possible.
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    • 2.Unconditional hospitality dissolves the sovereign authority whose coercive power protects the very rights hospitality claims to honor.
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    • 3.A host who cannot refuse entry ceases to be a host in any meaningful sense, collapsing the host-guest distinction Derrida's own analysis presupposes.
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    • 1.Walzer's 'Spheres of Justice' argues that communities have legitimate claims to self-determination, including democratic control over membership criteria.
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    • 2.Unconditional admission denies existing members the collective self-governance that grounds their own political standing as rights-bearing agents.
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    • 3.Rawlsian justice applies within cooperative schemes whose stability depends on bounded membership prior to distributive principles being operative.
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    • 1.With the border open as wide as possible, all others must be treated as friends rather than enemies to be expelled or exterminated
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    • 2.Unconditional hospitality means letting others in no matter what, without asking for papers and without judging them, even when uninvited
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