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    It is not the case that Humans engage in wrongdoing through self-deception

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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia holds that wrongdoing often involves clear-eyed weakness of will, not self-deception about what is right.
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    • 2.If agents can knowingly act against their better judgment, self-deception is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain wrongdoing.
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    • 1.Structural injustice theorists like Iris Marion Young argue that wrongdoing frequently arises from systemic social conditions, not individual epistemic failure.
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    • 2.Attributing wrongdoing primarily to self-deception locates moral failure entirely within individual psychology, obscuring institutional and material causes.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Self-deception allows people to ignore the promptings of their moral sense
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    • 2.Once the moral sense is ignored, people become motivated solely by physical desires for sex, food, and wealth
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