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    Any proportionality between merit and happiness that is d... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Happiness is directly proportioned to merit.

    Any proportionality between merit and happiness that is deferred to an afterlife is epistemically inaccessible and therefore cannot serve as a foundation for a just moral order in this world.

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    • 1.Moral systems must be evaluated by their practical effects on actual human welfare in the present world we inhabit.
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    • 2.Unverifiable claims about afterlife rewards cannot constrain or guide human behavior in ways we can rationally assess or collectively enforce.
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    • 3.Justice requires transparent accountability mechanisms; hidden cosmic ledgers fail this criterion entirely.
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    • 1.Epistemic inaccessibility doesn't render a claim irrelevant to moral foundations—we accept many unobservable theoretical entities in ethics.
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    • 2.A belief's psychological reality and motivational force matter morally regardless of verification status; it shapes actual behavior.
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    • 3.The claim assumes justice must be *knowable* to be real, but this conflates epistemology with metaphysics—they may diverge.
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    Key Terms

    Epistemically inaccessible(Describing a state (pre-cosmic) that we couldn't possibly have direct knowledge of)
    Something that humans cannot know or understand through reason, observation, or any other method of gaining knowledge.
    Foundation (of a moral order)(as used in ethics)
    The basic, underlying principle or reasoning that a system of right and wrong is built upon.
    Merit(as used in ethics)
    What someone deserves or has earned based on their actions, character, or accomplishments.
    Proportionality(One of the standard conditions for Jus Ad Bellum)
    The requirement that the ends to be secured by going to war would warrant the costs and harms of waging it.
    afterlife(philosophy of religion)
    A life beyond this life; a continuation of existence after death
    epistemology/epistemic(the 'epistemic' in 'epistemically determinate')
    Epistemology is the study of knowledge and how we know things. 'Epistemic' means 'related to knowledge or knowing.'
    moral order(Adams's pragmatic moral argument for theism)
    The idea that achieving a balance of good over evil in the universe requires something more than human effort, yet human effort can add or detract from the total value of the universe

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