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    It is not the case that Using stigma as a public health tool is unjust when the targeted behavior is caused by unjust social structures.

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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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    • 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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