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    It is not the case that Dwelling on reward and punishment diminishes affections towards public good

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Focusing on reward and punishment leads people to prioritize self-good and private interest
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    • 2.Prioritizing self-good and private interest insensibly diminishes affections towards public good and the interest of society
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Moral motivation grounded in external incentives crowds out intrinsic concern for others, as Kant argues that acting from inclination toward reward corrupts moral worth.
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    • 2.When virtuous action is habitually associated with personal gain, the affective disposition toward others' welfare is reconditioned into self-regarding calculation.
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    • 3.Shaftesbury's moral sense theory holds that genuine benevolence requires disinterested sentiment, which instrumentalizing frameworks systematically erode over time.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of habituation establishes that repeatedly performing actions for extrinsic reasons develops character traits oriented toward self-interest rather than virtue.
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    • 2.A character trait oriented primarily toward self-interest generates motivational structures that are phenomenologically incompatible with spontaneous benevolent affection.
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