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    Challenges→Goldman's (G*1) and Sobel's (S) actualist views are objectionable on possibilist grounds

    Allowing agents to avoid obligations due to imperfect character lets agents get off the moral hook too easily

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    Goldman’s (G*1) and Sobel’s (S) enjoy the theoretical and practical virtue of simplicity by prescribing a single obligatory act sequence at a time rather than multiple, jointly unfulfillable prescriptions at a time. But this theoretical virtue comes at the cost of a possibilist objection: their views allow agents to avoid incurring moral obligations simply in virtue of having an imperfect moral character, and this allows agents to, morally speaking, get off the hook too easily (Jackson &

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