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    It is not the case that It is always morally permissible to bring about the best outcome.

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    • 1.Bernard Williams argued that certain actions are constitutive of personal integrity, and morality cannot require their violation regardless of outcomes.
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    • 2.Requiring an agent to perform acts that sever their deepest commitments destroys the very self that consequentialism purports to benefit.
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    • 3.Therefore, some outcomes remain impermissible to bring about because the cost falls on the agent's identity, not merely their preferences.
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    • 1.Deontological constraints, as Nagel and Foot argued, reflect agent-relative reasons that are not reducible to impersonal aggregative rankings of states of affairs.
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    • 2.If agent-relative reasons are irreducibly real, then 'best outcome' defined impersonally fails to capture the full moral landscape of permissibility.
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    • 1.The Compelling Idea holds that one always has most reason to desire the best state of affairs.
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    • 2.It can never be right to prefer a worse state of affairs to a better one.
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