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    It is not the case that Annihilationism is against the justice of God

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.There is no alternative that is more just than Annihilationism
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    • 2.If there is nothing that is any more just, then it cannot be against the principles of justice
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    • 3.If the above is true, then it is not that Annihilationism is against the justice of God
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    Reasons Against

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    Reason against 1 of 2
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    • 1.Justice requires proportionality between offense and punishment, as Aristotle establishes in Nicomachean Ethics Book V.
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    • 2.Annihilation imposes the same penalty—nonexistence—on the moderately wicked and the supremely wicked alike, collapsing proportionality.
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    • 3.A punishment scheme that cannot differentiate degrees of culpability violates the core Aristotelian requirement of distributive justice.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Retributive justice, defended by Kant in the Metaphysics of Morals, requires that wrongdoers receive what they are genuinely owed, not merely what is convenient to administer.
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    • 2.Annihilation eliminates the subject of punishment entirely, meaning no agent remains to actually undergo the deserved moral reckoning.
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    • 3.A just God on Kantian grounds cannot satisfy retributive obligations by destroying the very person who owes the debt rather than collecting it.
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