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    P2's 'capacity implies responsibility' principle, if appl... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Firms should ameliorate serious problems such as poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation.

    P2's 'capacity implies responsibility' principle, if applied universally, generates demandingness objections that collapse the agent-relative prerogatives central to moral agency.

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    • 1.Agents with capacity to aid distant strangers face infinite moral demands if capacity alone generates obligation.
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    • 2.Moral systems requiring agents to maximize welfare output eliminate meaningful space for personal projects and relationships.
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    • 3.Sustainable moral agency requires agent-relative permissions; unlimited demandingness causes psychological burnout and moral disengagement.
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    • 1.Capacity-responsibility link need not be absolute; graduated obligations scaled to capacity avoid collapse of agency.
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    • 2.Personal projects and agent-relative prerogatives can coexist with capacity-based duties through properly bounded moral frameworks.
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    • 3.The demandingness objection assumes capacity generates unlimited obligations, but capacity could justify only reasonable, proportional duties.
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