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    It is not the case that It would be incompatible with God's moral character to interfere with someone's freedom at the very point where honoring that freedom would teach a hard lesson and do the most good.

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    • 1.A perfectly loving God's moral character includes parental-type obligations to relentlessly pursue the restoration of rational creatures, not merely honor their choices.
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    • 2.Earthly parents are not considered morally exemplary when they permit children to suffer permanent ruin in the name of respecting autonomy.
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    • 3.Universalists like Thomas Talbott argue divine love is logically incompatible with accepting any creature's permanent self-destruction as a final outcome.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Post-mortem choices made under conditions of deception, addiction-like habituation, or cognitive corruption may not constitute the kind of free acts that generate inviolable moral claims.
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    • 2.Kant's autonomy principle applies only to rational agents acting under conditions adequate for genuine rational self-governance, not to degraded or compulsive willing.
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    • 3.If sin systematically corrupts the rational faculty, respecting its outputs as sacrosanct freedom mistakes pathological compulsion for authentic self-determination.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Honoring sinners' freedom to experience the life they have chosen would teach a hard lesson and do the most good.
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    • 2.Interfering with freedom when it could achieve the greatest good would be contrary to God's moral character as most Christians understand it.
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