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    Finite temporal crimes, even the gravest, cannot generate... — Carmelics
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    Supports→If people are tortured forever in Hell with utmost intensity, either they must have committed infinitely evil crimes, or their ECT torturing must be inconsistent with the justice of God

    Finite temporal crimes, even the gravest, cannot generate infinite moral debt, as moral desert is bounded by the agent's finite causal and rational capacity.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires proportionality between agent capacity and deserved punishment; infinite debt exceeds finite agents' causal powers.
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    • 2.A person cannot rationally choose to incur infinite obligation in a finite moment; thus no finite act can generate infinite moral debt.
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    • 3.Justice systems presume punishment should match crime severity; infinite penalties for finite crimes violates proportionality principles.
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    • 1.Moral debt may depend on harm caused, not agent capacity; one negligent act causing infinite suffering generates debt proportional to harm.
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    • 2.Infinite consequences (e.g., murder's ripple effects across generations) can rationally ground infinite moral obligations from finite acts.
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    • 3.If violating infinite-value principles (human dignity, divine law) is possible in finite time, finite acts can incur infinite moral debt.
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