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    It is not that God would ever stop someone from acting ra... — Carmelics
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    It is not that God would ever stop someone from acting rationally

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    • 1.God's nature as perfectly rational entails that divine action is always oriented toward preserving and perfecting rational agency, never suppressing it.
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    • 2.Preventing suicide in Hell constitutes preserving rational agency across time, not overriding it, since annihilation forecloses all future rational acts.
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    • 3.Aquinas's doctrine of divine providence holds that God directs rational creatures toward their proper ends, which requires sustaining rather than eliminating their rational capacity.
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    • 1.On Kant's account, rational autonomy is inviolable such that any being perfectly aligned with rational law would act only to sustain conditions for rational agency.
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    • 2.Intervention that prevents the permanent destruction of a rational agent is categorically distinct from coercion, since coercion redirects rational will while annihilation eliminates it entirely.
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    • 1.God would stop someone from acting rationally if they attempted suicide in Hell
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    • 2.If the above is true, then God would stop someone from acting rationally if they attempted suicide
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    • If the above is true, God might stop someone form acting rationally
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    <html> <head> </head> <body> <p> One of the replies for this argument was, "well, we really have no grounds to accept this argument." Unfortunately, he did not seem to provide any grounds to believe anything else, so for those reasons, he cannot post a reply here. </p> </body> </html>