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    It is not the case that People freely choose salvation or Hell

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Libertarian freedom MIGHT not be a supreme, undebatable value
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    • 2.If the above is true, it MIGHT not be that people freely choose salvation or Hell
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    Reasons Against

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    Reason against 1 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative grounds moral responsibility in rational autonomy, making genuine free choice constitutive of human dignity itself.
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    • 2.A God who overrides the will to prevent Hell treats persons as means rather than ends, violating the very dignity Hell's critics invoke.
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    • 3.Compatibilist accounts fail to ground genuine moral desert, making libertarian freedom necessary for any coherent theory of just punishment.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.C.S. Lewis argues in 'The Great Divorce' that Hell's doors are locked from the inside, meaning damnation is the culmination of freely sustained self-rejection.
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    • 2.Existentialist frameworks from Sartre establish that humans are 'condemned to be free,' making the evasion of ultimate self-defining choice metaphysically impossible.
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