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    Supports→It is not that someone has committed an infinitely evil crime

    If offense against an infinite being generates infinite guilt, this reflects the victim's infinite worth, not the commission of an infinitely evil act by the agent.

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    • 1.Guilt magnitude should scale with victim's value, not perpetrator's intent or capacity for harm.
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    • 2.An infinite being's worth generates infinite relational significance regardless of finite agent's understanding.
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    • 3.Finite agents cannot perform infinitely evil acts by definition; only infinite beings possess infinite moral weight.
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    • 1.Guilt requires culpability proportional to knowledge and intent; an agent cannot be infinitely guilty for finite wrongdoing.
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    • 2.If victim's infinite worth alone determines guilt, then trivial offenses against infinite beings become infinitely serious, which seems absurd.
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    • 3.This framework severs the moral link between agent's will and responsibility, making punishment disconnected from desert.
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