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    • Public Health Ethics
    • Political Theory
    • Pandemic Policy Evaluation

    Background:

    • Individual liberty is a core tenet of liberal democracy and public health ethics.
    • The COVID-19 pandemic saw widespread implementation of restrictive public health policies, termed 'lockdowns'.
    • Scholarly debate questioned the ethical justification of lockdowns based on individual liberty.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To critically evaluate prominent liberty-based arguments against pandemic lockdowns.
    • To determine if individual liberty, in isolation, provides a sufficient basis for opposing such policies.
    • To propose an alternative liberty-focused framework for assessing pandemic interventions.

    Main Methods:

    • Review and analysis of existing scholarly arguments concerning individual liberty and lockdowns.
    • Philosophical examination of the role of liberty in public health policy.
    • Development of a functionalist approach to liberty in pandemic policy.

    Main Results:

    • Prominent liberty-based arguments against lockdowns were found to be either fallacious or incomplete.
    • Individual liberty alone is insufficient to decisively argue against pandemic lockdowns.
    • A functionalist perspective offers a more nuanced approach to balancing liberty and public health.

    Conclusions:

    • Pandemic lockdowns require careful ethical consideration beyond simple appeals to individual liberty.
    • A framework focusing on the functions of liberties can better guide policy design.
    • Future pandemic policies should aim to preserve the essential functions of liberties even amidst restrictions.