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    It is not the case that Any agent who has the power to do something also has the power not to do that thing.

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    • 1.Frankfurt-style cases demonstrate that an agent can possess a power to act while a counterfactual intervener guarantees the alternative cannot be realized.
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    • 2.If an omniscient counterfactual intervener blocks all alternatives, the agent retains the power to act but the power to refrain is rendered causally inert or absent.
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    • 3.A power that cannot be exercised under any accessible condition is not a genuine power, so the entailment from power-to-do to power-to-refrain fails.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Some powers are constitutively one-directional: the power to detonate a bomb, once exercised, forecloses the power not to have detonated it.
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    • 2.If a power's exercise is irreversible, the agent lacks any co-present power of restraint at the moment of action, falsifying the symmetry claim.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Power entails a set of inter-related powers.
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    • 2.Having the power to do something is inseparable from having the power to refrain from doing it.
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