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    A categorically impossible debt is not 'unjust' to leave ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→It is not that the debt can be paid

    A categorically impossible debt is not 'unjust' to leave unpaid—it is simply beyond the architecture of finite restitution.

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    • 1.Justice requires proportionality between obligation and capacity; demanding the impossible violates this fundamental ratio.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility presupposes ability; we cannot be justly blamed for failing to do what is logically or physically impossible.
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    • 3.Calling impossible debts 'unjust' conflates moral failure with metaphysical impossibility, obscuring meaningful ethical categories.
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    • 1.Impossibility itself can arise from prior unjust acts; declaring a debt non-unjust exempts the wrongdoer who created the impossibility.
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    • 2.The claim abandons victims by redefining injustice away rather than grappling with the real harm that remains unrepaired.
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    • 3.Acknowledging impossible debts as unjust preserves moral accountability even when restitution fails, preventing ethical erasure.
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