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    It is not the case that A person who injures others acts inconsistently if they approve of their own injurious actions

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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