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    Supports→In a no-best-world scenario, if world-value exhausts God's reasons for acting, God never does what God has most reason to do, and thus God's action is never supremely morally good.

    An agent whose choices are systematically underdetermined by the very reasons that constitute its standard of goodness fails the reasons-responsiveness condition for moral perfection.

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    Moral perfection(describing one type of perfection the agents would possess)
    Being perfect in terms of right and wrong; having flawless ethics and doing what is right in every situation.
    Standard of goodness(in ethics and moral philosophy)
    The principles or criteria that an agent uses to decide what is good or bad, right or wrong.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    reasons-responsiveness(Epicurean philosophy of mind)
    The capacity to respond to reasons, which allows humans to control their own development, unlike other animals.
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    (Used to contrast mathematical conjectures, whose correct answers are fixed by logical facts, with cases where no such determination exists.)
    A decision or truth is underdetermined when logical facts alone do not fix a single correct answer.

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