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    It is not the case that Annihilationism collapses the morally significant distinction between punishments of differing severity, undermining divine justice's capacity to differentiate degrees of guilt.

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    • 1.Annihilationism differentiates severity through timing: some face immediate judgment while others endure extended consequences before annihilation.
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    • 2.Moral distinction doesn't require infinite punishment; finite but graduated temporal durations adequately express degrees of guilt and justice.
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    • 3.Traditional eternal torture may itself collapse moral distinctions—infinite punishment for finite sins may be equally disproportionate regardless of severity differences.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.If all sins result in identical annihilation, the punishment is qualitatively the same regardless of whether one commits minor deception or genocide.
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    • 2.Divine justice requires proportionality: greater culpability must receive greater consequences to maintain moral coherence.
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    • 3.Annihilationism eliminates duration-based differentiation, losing a primary means of expressing graduated moral condemnation.
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