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    Imperfect duties cannot be legally enforced — Carmelics
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    Imperfect duties cannot be legally enforced

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    • 1.Imperfect duties require adopting certain ends rather than performing or forgoing specific actions
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    • 2.Human beings cannot be compelled to adopt ends — end-adoption must arise from free choice
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    • 3.Legal enforcement requires that the obligated action or omission can be externally compelled
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    • 1.Legal systems can enforce the conditions and occasions for benevolence without directly compelling the inner maxim of beneficence.
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    • 2.Welfare states legally mandate taxation for redistributive ends, instantiating imperfect duties of aid through institutional surrogates.
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    • 3.If the structural outcome of an imperfect duty is legally replicable, the distinction between perfect and imperfect enforcement collapses at the institutional level.
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    • 1.Mill argued in Utilitarianism that duties of beneficence can generate obligations enforceable by public opinion and, derivatively, by law when stakes are sufficiently high.
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    • 2.P2 of the supporting argument conflates psychological compulsion of ends with behavioral compulsion of end-expressing conduct, which are distinct phenomena.
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    • 3.Law routinely compels conduct that reliably expresses or realizes an end — Good Samaritan statutes being a canonical case — without compelling the inner adoption of that end.
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    The tendencies to find room for motive and character in the area of imperfect duty, and to assimilate virtue with continence, resurface in the writings of several moral philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is an illustrative case. In the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant divides moral philosophy into two domains, that of justice or law on the one hand (the Doctrine of Right), and that of ethics or virtue on the other (the Doctrine of Virtue). The duties that form the
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    Mill argued in Utilitarianism that duties of beneficence can generate obligation...
    P2 of the supporting argument conflates psychological compulsion of ends with be...
    Welfare states legally mandate taxation for redistributive ends, instantiating i...
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