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    Agent-relative obligations attach to killing in execution... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Forming an intention to kill does not by itself breach an agent-relative obligation when acting on that intention is impossible and good consequences would result.

    Agent-relative obligations attach to killing in execution of an intention, not to bare intention formation.

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    By requiring both intention and causings to constitute human agency, this third view avoids the seeming overbreadth of our obligations if either intention or action alone marked such agency. Suppose our agent-relative obligation were not to do some action such as kill an innocent –is that obligation breached by a merely negligent killing, so that we deserve the serious blame of having breached such a categorical norm (Hurd 1994)? (Of course, one might be somewhat blameworthy on consequentialist

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