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    If both following and violating a corrupt conscience are ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The obligatoriness of one's conscience for oneself is not negated by the fact that following a corruptly formed conscience also constitutes acting wrongly.

    If both following and violating a corrupt conscience are wrong, the agent faces a genuine moral dilemma with no obligating force in either direction, not a doubled obligation.

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    • 1.Obligation requires a reliable normative authority; a corrupt conscience lacks this authority, so it cannot generate genuine obligations.
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    • 2.True moral dilemmas involve conflicting valid duties. A corrupt conscience creates no valid duty, only a conflict between duty and compulsion.
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    • 3.If an agent has no sufficient reason to do X and no sufficient reason to do not-X, neither action can be obligatory, only regrettable.
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    • 1.The agent genuinely believes both options are required by morality (their internalized framework), creating subjective obligations regardless of corruption.
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    • 2.An agent can be objectively obligated to follow conscience even when corrupt, since epistemic duty to examine one's beliefs exists independently.
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    • 3.Denying obligating force paradoxically suggests the agent is permitted to do either—but doing what conscience forbids seems morally problematic.
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