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    It is not the case that Frankfurt's hierarchical mesh theory grounds guidance control in the structural relationship between first- and second-order desires, not in reasons-responsiveness.

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    • 1.Hierarchical alignment between desires tells us nothing about whether an agent *should* have those desires, making guidance control normatively hollow without reasons-responsiveness.
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    • 2.Second-order desires themselves require justification; grounding control in their structure merely pushes the responsibility question up one level rather than answering it.
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    • 3.An agent perfectly aligned with first- and second-order desires for self-harm lacks guidance control precisely because reasons-responsiveness is what moral guidance requires.
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    • 1.Reasons-responsiveness requires agents to recognize and act on rational considerations, but this assumes a unified rational agent that hierarchical theory need not presuppose.
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    • 2.Second-order desires provide a stable mechanism for identifying authentic guidance independent of momentary reasons recognition or processing capacities.
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    • 3.Pathological cases like the unwilling addict show structural hierarchical misalignment even when reasons-responsiveness mechanisms function normally.
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