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    An agent who complies with an unjust command bears moral ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→One acts unjustly if one fails to comply with the state's commands.

    An agent who complies with an unjust command bears moral responsibility for the resulting injustice, not merely the state.

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    • 1.Moral agents retain practical reasoning capacity even under authority; they can deliberate whether commands align with justice.
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    • 2.Distributing responsibility only to the state eliminates accountability for those who execute injustice, eroding personal moral agency.
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    • 3.Compliance requires an affirmative choice; passive obedience doesn't eliminate the agent's causal role in the resulting harm.
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    • 1.Severe power asymmetries (threats to life/livelihood) can override meaningful choice, making 'compliance' partially coerced action.
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    • 2.The state structures commands, enforcement mechanisms, and institutional pressures; agents operate within systems they didn't design.
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    • 3.Holding only individual agents responsible obscures systemic injustice and allows institutions to evade their primary moral culpability.
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