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    It is not the case that Because desert is determined by rational agency and happiness by natural causation, their proportionality would require a pre-established harmony that cannot be derived from practical reason alone and must be merely postulated, not demonstrated.

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    • 1.Rational agency may itself be part of natural causation rather than separate from it, eliminating the claimed domain distinction requiring harmony.
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    • 2.The fact that practical reason cannot derive something doesn't establish that it must be postulated; it may simply be unknown or inaccessible to us.
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    • 3.Desert and happiness may not require proportionality at all; the claim presupposes a moral premise rather than deriving it from the logical structure.
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    • 1.Rational agency operates through free choice while happiness follows causal laws; these operate in fundamentally different domains requiring external coordination.
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    • 2.Practical reason can only establish what agents ought to do, not what actually happens in nature; bridging these requires metaphysical positing.
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    • 3.The correlation between moral desert and actual happiness shows no logical necessity, only contingent alignment requiring explanation beyond reason.
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