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    An agent who wills torturing for fun cannot universalize ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Moral obligations are not requirements of practical reason

    An agent who wills torturing for fun cannot universalize that maxim without self-contradiction, violating the constitutive logic of rational agency.

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    • 1.Rational agency requires being able to will that others act on your maxim toward you without logical contradiction.
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    • 2.If you will torture-for-fun as universal law, you must rationally accept others torturing you for their fun.
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    • 3.No rational agent can coherently will their own torture while simultaneously willing to torture others for identical reasons.
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    • 1.Universalizability tests maxim consistency, not desirability—a torturer can logically will universal torture-for-fun without contradiction.
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    • 2.An agent might rationally accept torture-for-fun as universal IF they value dominance or believe themselves uniquely positioned to inflict it.
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    • 3.The claim conflates psychological unwillingness to suffer with logical inability to universalize—these are distinct properties.
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