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    A duty whose avoidability renders it permissible to avoid... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Strategic action to avoid egalitarian duties to needy people seems permissible if those duties arise solely from cooperative participation.

    A duty whose avoidability renders it permissible to avoid cannot serve the action-guiding function that distinguishes genuine moral obligations from mere preferences.

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    • 1.Moral obligations must provide categorical reasons that override competing preferences, not merely optional guidance.
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    • 2.If duty-avoidance is permissible, agents lack sufficient reason to comply, making the duty indistinguishable from preference.
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    • 3.Genuine moral norms function to regulate behavior precisely by constraining what agents may permissibly choose to do.
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    • 1.Imperfect duties (like developing talents) are genuine moral obligations yet remain avoidable without losing moral force.
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    • 2.Action-guidance requires only that duties provide reasons agents should internalize, not that avoidance becomes impermissible.
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    • 3.Many legitimate obligations are context-dependent and conditional, yet still distinguish themselves from mere preferences.
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