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    Using stigma as a public health tool is unjust when the t... — Carmelics
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    Using stigma as a public health tool is unjust when the targeted behavior is caused by unjust social structures.

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    • 1.Rawlsian justice requires that social institutions not compound disadvantage: stigma adds a second burden to those already harmed by unjust background conditions.
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    • 2.When background conditions are unjust, individuals lack genuine equal opportunity to avoid the stigmatized behavior, undermining the moral basis for blame.
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    • 3.Public health tools that presuppose voluntary agency where structural coercion operates misattribute causation and therefore misidentify the appropriate target of intervention.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework holds that blame is only warranted when an agent acts from an exemption-free exercise of will; structural coercion constitutes such an exemption.
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    • 2.Stigma as a public health tool is a form of blame-based intervention, and applying it where exempting conditions obtain violates the internal logic of moral responsibility itself.
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    • 1.Stigmatizing interventions aim to induce shame in individuals who exhibit the targeted behavior.
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    • 2.If unjust social structures are a root cause of the targeted behavior (e.g., obesity) in a group, then those individuals are already subject to injustice.
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    • 3.Shaming people for outcomes caused by injustices they are subject to constitutes victim-blaming.
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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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