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Full Idea
Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does.
Gist of Idea
Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does
Source
Thomas Nagel (Equality and Partiality [1991], Ch.10)
Book Ref
Nagel,Thomas: 'Equality and Partiality' [OUP 1995], p.100
A Reaction
I'm not convinced by this, as a simple rule. If I spend my whole life doing just the minimum for my own survival, I don't see why I should have to justify that, and I don't see a state is obliged to justify it either.