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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 genetic or metabolic factors outside individual control.

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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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    • 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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