The "Deliberative Public Justification Principle" states, more or less, that a moral rule has teeth only if each of us has good reason to accept the rule as binding—to see it as something that applies to us, something that makes sense for us to take on board and be guided by. Something in the neighbourhood of Mr Gaus' principle of public justification specifies what it means to take liberty and liberalism seriously. If some of us think it would be a good idea to limit others' choices, we owe them an argument thatthey have good reasons to abide by these limitations, and if they really can't see it, if they have reasonable grounds on which to reject such a limit on their liberty, we owe it to them back off.
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