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    Using stigma as a public health tool is unjust when the targeted behavior is caused by genetic or metabolic factors outside individual control.

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    • 1.Rawlsian justice requires that inequalities arising from morally arbitrary factors—including genetic endowment—cannot ground differential moral blame.
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    • 2.Stigma constitutes a social burden distributed along lines of genetic variation, violating the difference principle by worsening the position of the least advantaged through no fault of their own.
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    • 3.Public health tools that distribute social harms by morally arbitrary criteria fail the test of justifiability to all affected parties under contractualist reasoning.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework holds that blame and shame are only fitting responses when an agent exercises genuine voluntary control over the blameworthy action.
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    • 2.Neuroscientific and behavioral genetic evidence establishes that metabolic conditions like certain obesities involve regulatory mechanisms inaccessible to deliberate rational agency.
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    • 3.Deploying shame against involuntary biological states therefore constitutes a category error—misapplying the moral reactive attitudes appropriate only to volitional conduct.
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    • 1.Stigmatizing interventions hold individuals responsible for behaviors or conditions they are meant to change through shame.
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    • 2.Genetic or metabolic factors can be a root cause of conditions such as obesity in some individuals.
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    • 3.It is unjust to shame individuals for conditions that are completely outside their control.
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    Yet another line of objection engages victim-blaming concerns similar to those raised against policies that would penalize those who engage in unhealthy behaviors. This objection challenges the arguments in defense of stigma as a public health tool by highlighting that the individuals and groups to be stigmatized are the ones subject to the injustice. In particular, there are significant concerns about whether stigmatization involves victim-blaming, encourages a culture of victim-blaming, punish
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