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    If the damned will no longer be able to harm others, then... — Carmelics
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    If the damned will no longer be able to harm others, then there's not enough opportunities to sin in Hell continually

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    • 1.Aquinas holds that mortal sin requires a deliberate act of the will directed toward a concrete object of desire, not merely idle cognition.
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    • 2.In Hell, the beatific vision is permanently foreclosed, eliminating the will's capacity to freely redirect itself toward new genuine ends.
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    • 3.Without new genuine ends to pursue, sinful acts of will become structurally impossible, reducing damnation to suffering rather than ongoing culpable agency.
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    • 1.Kant's account of radical evil requires that the agent subordinate the moral law to inclination through a free act of maxim-adoption.
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    • 2.A being whose circumstances are permanently fixed and whose deliberative horizon is closed cannot generate new maxims, precluding fresh moral transgression.
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    • 3.Therefore, continued sinning in Hell presupposes a degree of practical freedom that the doctrine of eternal fixed damnation itself denies to the damned.
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    • People can still sin in thought
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    • If the above is true, then the logic is bad
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