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    It is not the case that Moral perfection requires acting on the all-things-considered best outcome, which may require permitting evils that constitute necessary conditions for greater goods.

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    • 1.Permitting evils treats people as mere means to aggregate outcomes, violating their basic rights and dignity.
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    • 2.Calculating 'all-things-considered best outcomes' faces epistemic limits; agents cannot reliably predict consequences.
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    • 3.This principle licenses arbitrary harm-causation; it collapses distinctions between doing and allowing harm.
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    • 1.Consequentialist ethics demands we evaluate actions by outcomes, not intentions or rules applied in isolation.
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    • 2.Reality often presents tragic choices where any action permits some harm; inaction also produces consequences.
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    • 3.Moral agents have duties to prevent greater harms when possible, even if doing so requires permitting lesser evils.
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