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The second type of argument that Rawls provides in favor of his favored restrictions on religious reasons, however, appeals not to the claim that justifying coercion on the basis of alien reasons disrespects our compatriots, but to the idea that the reasons on which we rely must be ones that others can endorse as autonomous agents.
Jonathan Quong has argued (2004, 233 250) that the requirement of public justification applies first and foremost to laws, a more finely grained kind of principle justifying coercion.
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Prepare to be kettled, insulted, abused, batoned, arrested on a pretext to justify coercion, intimidated and then subjected to a propaganda attack in the media.
This conception of morally justified coercion therefore involves no conception of a moral community among persons.
The idea of public justification is, at its root, an idea about what justifies coercion.
With duties, on Mill's view, it is important that we get compliance, and that justifies coercion.
Wellman's (1996) samaritan account of political legitimacy is an also an attempt to overcome the problem that showing that political institutions and the decisions made within them have beneficial consequences is not sufficient to justify coercion.
Hayek said the main difference between his views and those of the conservative is "that moral beliefs concerning matters of conduct which do not directly interfere with the protected sphere of other persons do not justify coercion".
"I sometimes feel that the most conspicuous attribute of liberalism that distinguishes it as much from conservatism as from socialism is the view that moral beliefs concerning matters of conduct which do not directly interfere with the protected sphere of other persons do not justify coercion".
The task of justifying political coercion, then, consists in identifying so-called liberty-limiting principles, which set out the conditions under which that presumption is overridden and the state is justified in exercising coercion.
Justified coercion under law provides a remedy by impeding those who would interfere with one's actions, thereby hindering the hindrances to freedom (Ripstein, pp. 54 55 et passim).
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