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    We should not automatically accept the Pareto criterion and reject principles of rationality, valuation, liberty, and responsibility.

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    • 1.Sen's Liberal Paradox demonstrates that even minimal liberty rights can systematically conflict with Pareto optimality, exposing the criterion's incompleteness.
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    • 2.When a criterion generates contradictions with foundational moral commitments, the criterion—not the commitments—bears the burden of justification.
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    • 3.Pareto optimality is a tool of welfare aggregation, not a foundational moral principle, and tools must be subordinated to the values they are meant to serve.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory establishes that voluntary exchanges preserving individual rights can produce outcomes that are Pareto-inferior yet morally required.
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    • 2.A principle that demands we override rights-respecting outcomes in favor of efficiency rankings derived from preference satisfaction conflates welfare with justice.
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    • 1.The Pareto criterion conflicts with principles of rationality, valuation, liberty, and responsibility.
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    • 2.Principles of rationality, valuation, liberty, and responsibility have an equally strong appeal as the Pareto criterion.
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    Kaplow and Shavell’s argument for the exclusivity of welfarism as an evaluative criterion rests on a third leg. The argument contends that use of any non-welfarist criterion is incompatible with the Pareto criterion. Section 6.2 accepts this claim for purposes of argument. The discussion then points out that the Pareto criterion conflicts with principles of rationality, valuation, liberty, and responsibility that have an equally strong appeal.[30] It is thus not clear that we should accept the
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