Some goods are valuable yet not appropriate objects of state action

Evidence

So much on why non-domination is a personal good or value. But the argument does not yet show that non-domination is a value that the state ought to try and advance. We all know that friendship is a great value in human life, but few of us believe that the state should give itself the task of furthering friendship. Why is freedom as nondomination different, as republicans have always taken it to be? — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 451

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State action is justified for goods individuals cannot secure privately but states can — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 452