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    Kant's autonomy principle applies only to rational agents... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→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.

    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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    • 1.Autonomy requires the capacity for rational reflection on one's desires; compulsive urges bypass this capacity entirely.
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    • 2.Kant distinguished between pathological inclination and rational willing; applying autonomy equally to both conflates distinct phenomena.
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    • 3.Respecting persons as rational agents requires conditions where their reasoning actually governs action, not mere wishful attribution.
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    • 1.Drawing lines between 'adequate' and 'degraded' willing requires contested empirical judgments about human psychology we lack criteria for.
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    • 2.Even compulsive agents retain some capacity for reflection; denying them autonomy risks paternalism masked as philosophical principle.
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    • 3.Kant's autonomy applies to rational nature itself, not contingent psychological conditions; conditions-based limits rewrite his doctrine.
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