Maximizing non-interference can justify leaving employees and women subject to powerful others.

Evidence

Imagine that we have a choice between leaving employers with a lot of power over employees, or men with a lot of power over women, and using state interference to reduce such power. Maximizing overall non-interference is perfectly compatible with taking the first option. While we do not guard against interference by the stronger under that option, we may not think that it is very likely to occur; and because we do not guard against interference by the stronger, we will count the absence of state interference as a great boon. Thus maximizing overall non-interference is perfectly compatible with forcing the individual employee or the individual woman to have to live with much uncertainty. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 421

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in whether republican institutions can build freedom without domination — here the contrast shows why mere negative liberty fails for the vulnerable. — connects to: Freedom as non-domination yields benefits beyond those of non-interference. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 407; Subjection can maximize a person’s expected freedom from interference while leaving them vulnerable. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 422; Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1207 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Subjection can maximize a person’s expected freedom from interference while leaving them vulnerable. #exemplifies (0.92) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 422
• The non-interference ideal let dominated groups like women be counted as free #exemplifies (0.88) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1213
• Freedom as non-domination yields benefits beyond those of non-interference. #expands (0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 407
• Women self-select away from the highest-reward positions, sustaining gender hegemony #exemplifies (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 767
• Non-domination confers security that survives others’ changed attitudes #corroborates (0.78) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 350
• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery #expands (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1207