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    It is not the case that If compatibilism is true, an omnipotent being could arrange the causal history of an agent such that the agent's own character reliably produces right choices, satisfying both freedom and moral goodness.

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    • 1.If an omnipotent being arranged the agent's character, the agent didn't ultimately author their own values, undermining genuine moral responsibility.
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    • 2.Even reliable right-choice production doesn't constitute moral goodness if the agent never could have authentically chosen otherwise at any point.
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    • 3.Compatibilist freedom may satisfy logical consistency but fails to capture the intuitive sense of moral agency most people ascribe to genuine virtue.
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    • 1.Compatibilism defines freedom as acting according to one's own desires/character without external coercion, not requiring alternative possibilities.
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    • 2.An omnipotent being can causally shape character formation such that an agent's reliable choices flow from their authentic values and reasoning.
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    • 3.Moral responsibility requires only that choices stem from the agent's own character, not that character itself be uncaused or self-originated.
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