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    A principle that generates obligatory extinction cannot c... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Negative utilitarianism implies that a government should provide free contraceptives, because doing so reduces pain and other disvalues.

    A principle that generates obligatory extinction cannot coherently ground partial population-reduction policies without an arbitrary threshold.

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    • 1.If a principle logically entails total extinction, any partial application requires a cutoff point not derivable from the principle itself.
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    • 2.Thresholds imposed externally to a principle are arbitrary unless justified by that same principle—creating circularity.
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    • 3.Coherence requires that grounding justifications for policy remain stable across their domain of application.
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    • 1.Many valid principles entail extreme conclusions in pure form but rationally permit moderate applications via independent constraints.
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    • 2.A threshold can be non-arbitrary if grounded in separate principles (feasibility, consent, rights) rather than deriving from the original principle.
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    • 3.The claim conflates logical entailment of a conclusion with coherence of partial implementation—different rational standards.
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