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    Morally significant knowledge of evil can be acquired thr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A responsible choice in God's favor requires that we sin.

    Morally significant knowledge of evil can be acquired through imagination, testimony, and empathy without requiring the agent to commit evil acts.

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    • 1.Moral understanding requires knowledge of consequences and suffering, which imagination and testimony can convey without experiential participation.
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    • 2.Empathy allows us to simulate others' experiences mentally, giving us sufficient insight into evil's nature without committing it ourselves.
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    • 3.Requiring direct commission of evil to understand it would make moral education impossible and justify harmful acts as necessary knowledge-gathering.
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    • 1.Imagination and testimony are filtered through existing frameworks; without direct experience, we may fundamentally misunderstand evil's phenomenology.
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    • 2.Empathy is cognitively unreliable—it fails across differences in perspective and can generate false confidence in understanding unfamiliar moral experiences.
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    • 3.Some moral knowledge appears to require embodied, contextual understanding that mediated sources cannot fully transmit or verify as genuine comprehension.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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