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    An agent's intention to behave badly does not change the ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Agents cannot avoid incurring an obligation to perform an action simply because they intend to perform that action poorly

    An agent's intention to behave badly does not change the moral requirements that apply to the agent

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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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