Any act of God actualizing a world is morally surpassable

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1.Any world actualized by God is morally surpassable
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2.If an action is evaluated as a state of affairs in terms of moral goodness, then the moral evaluation of the action tracks the moral evaluation of the state of affairs it produces
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3.If one prefers from a moral point of view the obtaining of possible world w2 to the obtaining of possible world w1, then one would prefer God's actualizing w2 to God's actualizing w1
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The main sticking point in this argument is the move from (3) to (4). (For a denial of (2) based on the possibility and moral unsurpassability of an infinitely valuable world, see Climenhaga 2018.) Detractors of this argument wonder whether it follows from the fact that any world actualized by God is morally surpassable that any act of actualizing a world is morally surpassable. It is easy to be tempted by the following line of thought. If we think of an action as a state of affairs to be evalua

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Validity: Extracted via Max plan + API grounding/validity checks

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Type: claim
Perspectives: 1 (1 for, 0 against)
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