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    It is not the case that If necessitated right action retains moral worth because the agent formed the relevant disposition voluntarily, the same logic preserves culpability for necessitated wrong action, collapsing the asymmetry.

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    • 1.Moral worth and culpability may differ fundamentally: virtue praising what's good differs from blame targeting harm-causes.
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    • 2.Disposition quality doesn't determine culpability equally; wrong-doing requires additional factors like mens rea or foresight.
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    • 3.Society's asymmetric need to encourage virtue and deter vice justifies different moral responses despite parallel causal structures.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires tracing actions to voluntary formation of dispositions, not momentary choice alone.
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    • 2.If disposition-formation grounds credit for necessitated right action, consistency demands it grounds blame for wrong action.
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    • 3.Denying this symmetry requires arbitrary asymmetric standards for identical causal-voluntary structures.
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