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    It is not the case that Imperfect duties cannot be legally enforced

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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