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    A person who injures others acts inconsistently if they a... — Carmelics
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    A person who injures others acts inconsistently if they approve of their own injurious actions

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    • 1.Placing oneself in the situation of those one has injured reveals that being treated injuriously would not merely anger one but would seem unfitting or undeserved
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    • 2.Approving of treating others in ways one would not wish to be treated oneself is therefore inconsistent
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    • 1.A person may coherently hold asymmetric moral standards: approving stricter treatment for others based on role, desert, or social position.
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    • 2.Nietzsche's master morality demonstrates that valuing one's own power over others need not involve self-contradiction, only a rejection of reciprocity as a norm.
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    • 1.Consistency in moral judgment requires only that like cases be treated alike; an injurer may sincerely believe their victim's case is relevantly unlike their own.
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    • 2.Hare's prescriptivism shows that universalizability permits role-differentiated prescriptions, so approving harm to others does not entail approving harm to oneself in relevantly different circumstances.
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    Conscience, for instance, is the product of a power of placing ourselves in the situation of others (which is needed for any sort of mutual understanding), a sense of the natural fitness of certain responses (injury and punishment or disapproval, benefit and reward or approval), and self-love. Placing ourselves in the situation of those we have injured, we recognize that being treated in that way would not merely anger us but seem unfitting or undeserved, and that we are therefore inconsistent i
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