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    PAP claims that in order to act freely one must be able t... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) at most sets forth a necessary condition of acting freely in the libertarian sense, not a sufficient one.

    PAP claims that in order to act freely one must be able to do otherwise.

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    In any case, how one assesses each of the three answers above will depend upon how one understands the idea of moral freedom and the role it plays, if any, in someone landing in either heaven or hell. The first two answers also represent a fundamental disagreement concerning the existence of free will in hell and perhaps even the nature of free will itself. According to the first answer, the inhabitants of hell are those who have freely acquired a consistently evil will and an irreversibly bad moral character. So for the rest of eternity, these inhabitants of hell do not even continue rejectin...

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