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    Absolute side-constraints cannot accommodate threshold ca... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Full self-ownership theory must be rejected.

    Absolute side-constraints cannot accommodate threshold cases where infinitesimal harms aggregate into serious injustice without principled resolution.

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    • 1.Infinitesimal harms below constraint thresholds become morally invisible, yet their aggregation can violate rights as severely as single large violations.
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    • 2.Absolute constraints require decision-makers to identify a principled cutoff point, but no non-arbitrary threshold exists between acceptable and unacceptable aggregate harm.
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    • 3.Sorites-like reasoning shows: if one grain doesn't make a heap, then n+1 grains don't either, yet piles clearly exist—similarly, constraint-respecting actions aggregate into injustice.
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    • 1.Threshold indeterminacy is a general metaphysical problem, not unique to constraints; vagueness doesn't invalidate boundary-respecting principles elsewhere.
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    • 2.Constraints can accommodate aggregation by addressing the collective agent's joint decision, not each individual's infinitesimal contribution separately.
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    • 3.If aggregation dissolves constraints, no principled limits exist on permissible individual action—which paradoxically removes moral resolution entirely, not clarifies it.
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