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    Goldman's (G*1) and Sobel's (S) actualist views are objec... — Carmelics
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    Goldman's (G*1) and Sobel's (S) actualist views are objectionable on possibilist grounds

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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity demands we evaluate agents by what they could do as rational beings, not merely by their contingent inclinations.
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    • 2.If actualism excuses agents whose bad intentions limit their options, it collapses the distinction between moral evaluation and causal prediction.
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    • 3.Moral theory must be normative, not merely descriptive of what agents happen to be disposed to do given their actual volitional states.
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    • 1.Parfit's principle that agents bear responsibility for their own predictable failures implies obligations extend to foreseeable counterfactual actions.
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    • 2.Allowing vicious character to shrink an agent's obligation set creates a perverse incentive: cultivating bad intentions becomes a strategy for moral exemption.
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    • 1.Goldman's and Sobel's views allow agents to avoid incurring moral obligations simply in virtue of having an imperfect moral character
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    • 2.Allowing agents to avoid obligations due to imperfect character lets agents get off the moral hook too easily
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    • 3.Actualism is committed to this even when agents are disposed to behave badly because they intend to behave badly
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    Goldman’s (G*1) and Sobel’s (S) enjoy the theoretical and practical virtue of simplicity by prescribing a single obligatory act sequence at a time rather than multiple, jointly unfulfillable prescriptions at a time. But this theoretical virtue comes at the cost of a possibilist objection: their views allow agents to avoid incurring moral obligations simply in virtue of having an imperfect moral character, and this allows agents to, morally speaking, get off the hook too easily (Jackson &
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