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    Supports→Any act of God actualizing a world is morally surpassable

    If one prefers from a moral point of view the obtaining of possible world w2 to the obtaining of possible world w1, then one would prefer God's actualizing w2 to God's actualizing w1

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    Actualize(as describing what power someone has)
    To make something real or bring it into existence; to turn a possibility into reality.
    God (in philosophical arguments)(philosophy of religion)
    In philosophy, usually refers to an all-powerful, all-knowing being who is considered the creator of reality—often discussed as the being capable of choosing which version of the world actually exists.

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    moral point of view(Mill's assumed foundation for deriving utilitarian conclusions)
    An impartial standpoint that does not privilege the agent's own interests over those of others.
    obtaining(as used in formal philosophy)
    To exist or be true; a formal way of saying 'to hold' or 'to actually happen'.
    possible world(Leibniz's account of modality; 'existence' of possible worlds is shorthand for compossibility, not literal existence)
    A set of compossible essences — a maximal collection of individual natures that can co-exist without contradiction
    w1 and w2 (notation)(logic and metaphysics)
    Shorthand labels for different possible worlds—'w1' is one possible world and 'w2' is another, making it easier to compare them.

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    Divine Attributes2 linkedAgainst an attribute of God1 linkedConsequentialism1 linkedMoral Responsibility1 linked

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    The main sticking point in this argument is the move from (3) to (4). (For a denial of (2) based on the possibility and moral unsurpassability of an infinitely valuable world, see Climenhaga 2018.) Detractors of this argument wonder whether it follows from the fact that any world actualized by God is morally surpassable that any act of actualizing a world is morally surpassable. It is easy to be tempted by the following line of thought. If we think of an action as a state of affairs to be evalua

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