{"id":12924,"date":"2018-05-30T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12924"},"modified":"2023-02-03T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T02:21:08","slug":"public-cartels-private-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12924","title":{"rendered":"Public cartels, private conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Cholbi<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Many contributors to debates about professional conscience assume a basic, pre-professional right of conscientious refusal and proceed to address how to \u2018balance\u2019 this right against other goods. Here I argue that opponents of a right of conscientious refusal concede too much in assuming such a right, overlooking that the professions in which conscientious refusal is invoked nearly always operate as public cartels, enjoying various economic benefits, including protection from competition, made possible by governments exercising powers of coercion, regulation, and taxation. To acknowledge a right of conscientious refusal is to license professionals to disrespect the profession\u2019s clients, in opposition to liberal ideals of neutrality, and to engage in moral paternalism toward them; to permit them to violate duties of reciprocity they incur by virtue of being members of public cartels; and to compel those clients to provide material support for conceptions of the good they themselves reject. However, so long as (a) a public cartel discharges its obligations to distribute the socially important goods they have are uniquely authorized to provide without undue burden to its clientele, and (b) conscientious refusal has the assent of other members of a profession, individual professionals\u2019 claims of conscience can be accommodated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cholbi M. Public cartels, private conscience.<\/a> Polit Phil Econ. 2018 May 30;17(4):356-377. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Cholbi AbstractMany contributors to debates about professional conscience assume a basic, pre-professional right of conscientious refusal and proceed to address how to \u2018balance\u2019 this right against other goods. Here I argue that opponents of a right of conscientious refusal concede too much in assuming such a right, overlooking that the professions in which conscientious … Continue reading “Public cartels, private conscience”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2,659,1401],"tags":[1799,1128],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-article","category-philosophy","category-professionalism","tag-michael-cholbi","tag-neutrality"],"yoast_head":"\r\nPublic cartels, private conscience - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To acknowledge a right of conscientious refusal licenses professionals to disrespect their clients, contrary to liberal ideals of neutrality\" \/>\r\n<meta 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