 Others are skeptical of this line of argument. Ben Schwan (2021) cautions that the mere fact that people’s choices are influenced by the social determinants of health does not mean that they are not responsible for them—some social determinants of health are “responsibility-preserving”. Cavallero (2019) argues similarly that the health-related choices of people with low socio-economic status satisfy widely accepted criteria of responsible choice, namely, that they are made in the context of reasonable alternatives and are not coerced. He argues further that questioning the autonomy and responsibility of people of low socioeconomic status is incompatible with the liberal ideal that all competent adults are deserving of equal respect and opens the door to paternalistic restrictions of people’s liberty (Cavallero 2019). This does not imply, however, that society is not also responsible for the disparate health outcomes of low SES individuals. Cavallero (2019: 378) agrees that the pattern Levy (2019) identifies is morally troubling and argues that governments have an obligation to ensure that people do