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    One optimific act-set available to Andy is playing video ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Possibilism permits Apathetic Andy to play video games tonight, even though doing so results in a suboptimal outcome and exacerbates his bad moral character.

    One optimific act-set available to Andy is playing video games tonight and donating to charity tomorrow.

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    It is worth noting that possibilism is thought to be subject to a related problem. While it doesn’t allow agents to avoid incurring moral obligations for having a vicious moral character, it does allow agents to avoid incurring moral obligations to curtail their vicious moral character (Timmerman and Swenson 2019). To illustrate the problem, suppose that one of the optimific act-sets Apathetic Andy can perform over time includes ⟨playing video games tonight and donating his expendable income to

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