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    It is not the case that Any axiological formulation of the argument from evil is incomplete in a crucial respect.

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    • 1.Axiological arguments can be self-sufficient if the normative gap is bridged by widely accepted background assumptions about rational agency and goodness.
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    • 2.Rowe's 1979 evidential argument operates axiologically by inferring from the existence of pointless suffering to the improbability of omnipotence plus perfect goodness, without requiring a separate deontological premise.
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    • 3.A being whose nature just is perfect goodness is logically compelled to act on that goodness, collapsing the axiological-deontological distinction for the theistic God specifically.
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    • 1.Consequentialist moral frameworks, defended by Mill and later Parfit, entail that the wrongness of an act just is constituted by its axiological deficit, making deontological supplementation redundant.
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    • 2.If consequentialism is even a serious candidate moral theory, then the claim that axiological formulations are necessarily incomplete presupposes a contested internalist deontological framework without justification.
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    • The axiological formulation fails to make explicit how a failure to bring about good states of affairs, or a failure to prevent bad states of affairs, entails that one is acting in a morally wrong way.
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