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    It is not the case that Human beings beget guilty, not innocent, children.

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    • 1.Moral guilt requires a voluntary act of will; inherited conditions transmitted biologically cannot constitute culpability in any defensible moral framework.
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    • 2.Kant's principle that persons must be treated as ends, not mere means, entails that punishing beings for unchosen conditions violates the foundations of moral responsibility.
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    • 3.If guilt requires voluntary agency, then a child born with corrupted nature is a victim of circumstance, not a moral agent deserving condemnation.
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    • 1.Pelagius, drawing on consistent patristic sources, argued that each soul is created directly by God and therefore cannot inherit moral guilt from biological ancestors.
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    • 2.If the soul is immaterial and individually created ex nihilo at conception, as Creationist theologians like Jerome maintained, then no mechanism exists by which Adam's moral guilt transfers to a newly created soul.
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    • 3.The supporting argument conflates the transmission of a corrupted biological nature with the transmission of juridical guilt, which are categorically distinct.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Human beings beget children from a corrupted nature.
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    • 2.Whether a man is a guilty unbeliever or an innocent believer, the corruption of nature is transmitted to offspring.
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