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    Dissolving persons to resolve the desert problem eliminat... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The objection that karma across lives requires a transmigrating self to justify desert can be resolved by rejecting the assumption that persons are ultimately real entities that bear moral properties like desert.

    Dissolving persons to resolve the desert problem eliminates the very subject for whom karmic soteriological liberation is supposed to be beneficial, generating a parallel paradox.

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    • 1.Soteriological liberation requires a beneficiary; if persons are dissolved, no agent experiences the liberation, making it metaphysically incoherent.
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    • 2.The desert problem assumes moral agents deserve consequences; dissolving agents eliminates the deserving subject, not the desert itself.
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    • 3.Personal identity continuity is necessary for liberation to be meaningful; dissolution severs the connection between suffering and eventual freedom.
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    • 1.Liberation may not require a persistent substantial self; transformation or emergence of new consciousness could constitute soteriological benefit.
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    • 2.The desert problem dissolves not the person but attachments/illusions constituting false selfhood; liberation is precisely recognizing non-self nature.
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    • 3.Paradox dissolves if 'person' and 'karmic subject' are distinguished; karmic processes operate without requiring persons as ultimate metaphysical entities.
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