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    Vaccine mandates are not justifiable within the libertari... — Carmelics
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    Vaccine mandates are not justifiable within the libertarian framework

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    • 1.Each individual unvaccinated child imposes only a low risk of harm on others
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    • 2.Libertarians hold that interference with free and equal persons for the sake of overall benefit is illegitimate
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    • 3.The most natural argument for mandatory vaccination justifies restricting individual liberty for overall benefit
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    • 1.Libertarian rights theory permits interference to prevent non-consensual harm imposition, not merely to aggregate social benefit.
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    • 2.An unvaccinated person who enters shared public spaces actively imposes a non-trivial probabilistic harm on immunocompromised individuals who cannot consent to that risk.
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    • 3.Therefore, vaccine mandates in contexts of herd immunity breakdown can be grounded in Nozickian harm-prevention principles without appealing to aggregative utility.
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    • 1.Epstein and others in the libertarian tradition ground permissible state action in preventing externalities that constitute rights violations.
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    • 2.Communicable disease transmission is a paradigm case of a negative externality that crosses personal boundaries without consent, satisfying libertarian harm criteria.
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    • 3.Mandating vaccination thus falls within the libertarian justificatory framework when framed as preventing non-consensual boundary crossings rather than maximizing collective welfare.
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    As with the harm principle, those in the liberty tradition are not necessarily opposed to public health measures that prohibit people from harming others. Yet we might wonder whether the liberty tradition’s premium on individual liberty constrains various public health interventions that its proponents wish to endorse. An interesting boundary case concerns whether members of the liberty tradition can endorse vaccine mandates, especially for the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (Bernstein 2017; Bren
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    The most natural argument for mandatory vaccination justifies restricting indivi...
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