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    It is not the case that Jonathan Edwards argues that the heinousness of sin scales with the dignity of the one sinned against, not merely the temporal length of the harmful act.

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    • 1.Harm to the victim's wellbeing is what matters morally, not the perpetrator's subjective valuation of the victim's dignity—a painful injury is equally wrong regardless.
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    • 2.Grounding sin's severity in the victim's dignity makes morality dependent on hierarchy and status, risking the conclusion that harming the powerless matters less.
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    • 3.Duration and consequences of harm (suffering caused, opportunities lost) are objective measures of wrongness; 'dignity' is metaphysically obscure and varies by theological tradition.
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    • 1.A lie told to God involves contempt for infinite perfection, while the same lie to a child harms finite understanding—the offense scales with the dignity of the recipient.
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    • 2.Moral wrongs are relational: stealing from a beggar and stealing from a king involve identical temporal acts but radically different moral injuries based on what's owed each party.
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    • 3.Our intuitions about insult severity confirm this: insulting a stranger differs morally from insulting one's benefactor, even with identical words, because of the recipient's standing.
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