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    Neither of these consequences (overbroad obligation via a... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Agent-relative obligations require both intention and action (causation) to constitute human agency, not either alone.

    Neither of these consequences (overbroad obligation via action alone or overbroad obligation via intention alone) is acceptable.

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    By requiring both intention and causings to constitute human agency, this third view avoids the seeming overbreadth of our obligations if either intention or action alone marked such agency. Suppose our agent-relative obligation were not to do some action such as kill an innocent –is that obligation breached by a merely negligent killing, so that we deserve the serious blame of having breached such a categorical norm (Hurd 1994)? (Of course, one might be somewhat blameworthy on consequentialist

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