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    Challenges→Proximate consequentialism makes it easier for agents and observers to justify moral judgments of acts.

    If epistemic difficulty justified moral truncation, agents could strategically exploit uncertainty about distant harms to license otherwise impermissible acts, producing a framework vulnerable to systematic abuse.

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    Distant harms(as used in ethics)
    Negative consequences or suffering that happen far away (in space or time) from where you are or when you act, making them harder to see or think about.
    Epistemic difficulty(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A situation where it's genuinely hard to know or find out information about something—like when the facts are unclear or hard to discover.
    Impermissible acts(as used in ethics)
    Actions that are not allowed or that violate moral rules; things you shouldn't do because they're wrong.
    License (in philosophical context)(as used in ethics)
    Permission or justification to do something—in this case, an excuse that would normally make a wrong action seem okay.
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    (as used in ethics)
    Cutting short or limiting your ethical responsibilities—basically, deciding you don't have to follow moral rules in certain situations.
    Systematic abuse(as used in ethics and social philosophy)
    Repeated, organized misuse of a system or rule in ways that harm people or undermine the system's original purpose.

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