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    It is not the case that Mark Siderits argues in 'Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy' that Buddhist reductionism about persons entails that moral evaluation must track causal chains, not agent-internal states alone.

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    • 1.Causal chains are vast and indeterminate; moral evaluation requires principled boundaries that internal states naturally provide.
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    • 2.Buddhist philosophy emphasizes intention (cetana) as central to ethics; reducing evaluation to external causation contradicts core texts.
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    • 3.Tracking only causal chains risks dissolving personal agency—if I'm merely a link in chains, why hold me responsible for outputs?
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    • 1.If persons are reducible to aggregates without essential identity, moral responsibility cannot attach to an unchanging self-essence.
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    • 2.Causal chains reveal how actions propagate consequences; tracking only mental states ignores actual harm produced in the world.
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    • 3.Buddhist ethics emphasizes dependent origination—moral evaluation must follow causal connections, not isolated internal dispositions.
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