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    Inherited guilt without personal agency violates the prin... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Those who die in infancy or never develop into minimally rational agents also deserve condemnation along with the rest of the human race.

    Inherited guilt without personal agency violates the principle of individual moral responsibility foundational to retributive justice since Ezekiel 18:20 and Kant's ethics.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires causal agency: one cannot be justly punished for actions they did not commit or choose.
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    • 2.Both Ezekiel 18:20 and Kantian ethics explicitly reject vicarious liability as violating human dignity and rational autonomy.
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    • 3.Collective or inherited guilt creates unjust outcomes where innocent parties suffer for others' choices, undermining fairness.
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    • 1.Retributive justice is one framework among others; consequentialist and restorative approaches may justify inherited constraints for systemic harm.
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    • 2.Individual moral responsibility can coexist with acknowledging structural inheritance of advantage/disadvantage from historical injustice.
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    • 3.Ezekiel 18:20 and Kant address personal punishment, not whether individuals share responsibility for benefiting from inherited systemic inequity.
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