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It is not the case that Hell is essentially a freely embraced condition rather than a forcibly imposed punishment.
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Choices made under severely distorted conditions—addiction, trauma, or corrupted will—lack the voluntariness required for genuine freedom.
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If sinful dispositions systematically degrade rational agency, post-mortem damnation reflects impaired choice, not authentic self-determination.
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A just God who permits eternal consequences from compromised freedom cannot coherently be absolved by appealing to that same freedom.
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Anselm and Aquinas both held that the damned retain an inclination toward happiness but are permanently denied it, suggesting deprivation rather than satisfaction.
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If the damned genuinely suffer and desire relief, their condition cannot be described as freely embraced in any meaningful ongoing sense.
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The self-imposed misery that hell entails is freely chosen by the individual.
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