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    It is not the case that Parfit's Reasons and Persons demonstrates that facts about what has ultimate value underdetermine which imperatives are genuinely categorical versus strongly agent-relative.

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    • 1.Parfit's framework ultimately relies on the Convergence Thesis: rationality and morality converge, which constrains what imperatives can be justified.
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    • 2.Categorical imperatives (Kantian duties) and agent-relative reasons operate at different logical levels and don't require underdetermination by value facts.
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    • 3.Parfit himself concludes some imperatives are rationally justified regardless of value theory chosen, suggesting determination, not underdetermination.
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    • 1.Parfit shows that population ethics, preference satisfaction, and objective goods yield conflicting prescriptions about procreation duties.
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    • 2.Agreement on intrinsic goods (pleasure, knowledge) leaves open whether agents have agent-neutral obligations or personal agent-relative permissions.
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    • 3.The non-identity problem reveals that value facts alone don't determine whether we have categorical duties regarding future people's existence.
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