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    Challenges→Agent-relative obligations require both intention and action (causation) to constitute human agency, not either alone.

    If negligent killings can be graded by degree of deviation from due care, as tort law and common moral practice confirm, then action-based obligations need not be overbroad but can be indexed to culpable risk-imposition.

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    • 1.Tort law successfully distinguishes negligence grades (gross vs. ordinary) without treating all careless conduct identically, proving proportional culpability is workable.
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    • 2.Moral intuitions treat a driver texting differently from one slightly exceeding speed limits, suggesting obligations naturally track degrees of risk imposition, not binary categories.
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    • 3.Indexing obligations to risk-deviation allows holding people responsible for genuinely controllable choices without collapsing into impossible standards.
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    • 1.Tort law's negligence grades measure harm-causation and damages retrospectively; prospective moral obligations cannot rely on outcome-dependent calibrations without circularity.
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    • 2.Culpable risk-imposition remains indeterminate without a prior account of which risks agents should accept, threatening to make obligations parasitic on unstated values.
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    • 3.Grading culpability by deviation from due care presupposes a fixed standard of due care, yet this standard itself requires independent normative justification the claim doesn't provide.
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    Action-based obligations(as used in ethics)
    Moral duties that focus on what specific actions you must do (or avoid), rather than on the outcomes or consequences those actions produce.
    Culpable risk-imposition(as used in ethics and law)
    Creating danger or harm to others in a way that you can be blamed for—usually because you knew (or should have known) about the risk.
    Due care(as used in law and ethics)
    The reasonable amount of attention and caution that a person is expected to use in a situation to avoid harming others.
    Indexed to(as used in ethics)
    Connected or adjusted according to something else; in this case, obligations that change based on how much risk someone is creating.
    Negligent killing(as used in law and ethics)
    Causing someone's death through carelessness or failure to be careful enough, rather than through intentional harm.
    Overbroad(as used in ethics and logic)
    Too wide or sweeping in scope; applying too much in situations where a narrower, more limited approach would be better.
    Tort law(as used in legal philosophy)
    The area of law that deals with cases where one person's careless or intentional actions harm another person, often resulting in compensation for damages.

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