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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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