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    It is not the case that God's lack of freedom to do evil precludes God's being perfectly morally good.

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    • 1.On a libertarian account of free will, being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.
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    • 2.Freedom is a necessary condition for moral assessability.
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    • 3.God lacks the possibility of doing evil.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Kant's moral worth doctrine holds that genuine moral goodness requires acting from duty against competing inclinations, not from necessity.
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    • 2.An agent constitutionally incapable of evil faces no competing inclinations to overcome, eliminating the struggle that grounds moral worth.
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    • 3.Therefore God's necessary goodness produces morally inert behavior, not praiseworthy virtue in the Kantian sense.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotelian virtue ethics grounds moral excellence in habituated choice: virtuous agents could choose otherwise but reliably choose well.
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    • 2.An agent for whom evil is metaphysically impossible exercises no genuine choice between alternatives, failing the Aristotelian condition for virtue.
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    • 3.Perfect moral goodness, properly understood as virtue, presupposes the real availability of vicious alternatives that God demonstrably lacks.
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