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    It is not the case that Vaccine mandates are not justifiable within the libertarian framework

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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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    • 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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