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A great deal of scholarly attention has been paid to coercion. Less attention has been paid to what might be a more pervasive form of influence: manipulation. The essays in this volume address this relative imbalance by focusing on manipulation, examining its nature, moral status, and its significance in personal and social life

"Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least since John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill famously decried paternalism of any kind, whether carried out by private individuals or the state. In this volume of new essays, leading moral, political and legal philosophers address how to define paternalism, its justification, and the implications for public policy, professional ethics and criminal law. So-called 'libertarian' or non-coercive paternalism receives considerable attention. The discussion addresses the nature of freedom and autonomy and the relation of individuals to law, policy and the state. The volume will interest a wide range of readers in political philosophy, public policy and the philosophy of law"--

Introduction / Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber -- Conscience, religion, and exemptions : an egalitarian view / Jocelyn Macclure -- On the constitutionality and political morality of granting conscience-protecting exemptions only to religious beliefs / Michael Perry -- How should we treat religion? On exemptions and exclusions / Kyle Swan -- Contempt, futility, and exemption / Simon Cǎbulea May -- Legal exemptions for religious feelings / Lucas Swaine -- Political liberalism and religious exemptions / Christie Hartley and Lori Watson -- Religious accommodation, social justice, and public education / Robert Audi -- Scopes of religious exemptions : a normative map / Perry Dane -- Neutrality and the religion analogy / Andrew Koppelman -- Prioritizing religion in vaccine exemption policies / Mark C. Navin -- R v NS : the niqab in court and lessons in religious exemptions / Naama Ofrath -- Religious conscience and the private market / Ted Poston -- In defense of the sincerity test / Kara Loewentheil and Elizabeth Reiner Platt -- Insubstantial burdens / Chad Flanders

The future response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures remains highly uncertain. A useful period for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last Interglacial (LIG) (129 to 116 ky), which experienced warmer polar temperatures and higher global mean sea level (GMSL) (+6 to 9 m) relative to present day. LIG sea level cannot be fully explained by Greenland Ice Sheet melt (similar to 2 m), ocean thermal expansion, and melting mountain glaciers (similar to 1 m), suggesting substantial Antarctic mass loss was initiated by warming of Southern Ocean waters, resulting from a weakening Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in response to North Atlantic surface freshening. Here, we report a blue-ice record of ice sheet and environmental change from the Weddell Sea Embayment at the periphery of the marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), which is underlain by major methane hydrate reserves. Constrained by a widespread volcanic horizon and supported by ancient microbial DNA analyses, we provide evidence for substantial mass loss across the Weddell Sea Embayment during the LIG, most likely driven by ocean warming and associated with destabilization of subglacial hydrates. Ice sheet modeling supports this interpretation and suggests that millennial-scale warming of the Southern Ocean could have triggered a multimeter rise in global sea levels. Our data indicate that Antarctica is highly vulnerable to projected increases in ocean temperatures and may drive ice-climate feedbacks that further amplify warming. ; Australian Research Council Royal Society of New Zealand Linkage Partner Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions LP120200724 NERC Natural Environment Research Council NE/I027576/1 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol European Research Council (ERC) Fulbright Commission 259253 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) 15KK0027 17H06320 Australian Government