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

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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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    • 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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