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    It is not the case that Buddhist ethics prioritizes intention over consequences in moral evaluation

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    • 1.The Pali Canon's doctrine of kamma evaluates actions by their vipāka (fruits), making consequences constitutive of moral weight, not merely incidental.
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    • 2.Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga treats unwholesome outcomes as evidence of underlying cetanā defects, collapsing the intention/consequence distinction from within.
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    • 1.The Channa case is exceptional precisely because the Vinaya normally assigns pārājika offenses based on outcomes regardless of intent, undermining its generalizability.
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    • 2.Mark Siderits argues in 'Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy' that Buddhist reductionism about persons entails that moral evaluation must track causal chains, not agent-internal states alone.
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    • 1.Buddhism emphasizes the intention with which an act was performed more than the benefit or harm that actually resulted
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    • 2.The case of Channa demonstrates that a harmful outcome does not negate moral goodness when intention was good
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