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    Challenges→It would be incompatible with God's moral character to interfere with someone's freedom at the very point where honoring that freedom would teach a hard lesson and do the most good.

    Post-mortem choices made under conditions of deception, addiction-like habituation, or cognitive corruption may not constitute the kind of free acts that generate inviolable moral claims.

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    Cognitive corruption(as a condition that affects mental capacity)
    Damage or distortion to a person's thinking processes, reasoning, or ability to understand reality clearly.
    Deception(PR §87–89)
    The second kind of wrong, in which both parties claim to appeal to right but one side does so insincerely.
    Inviolable moral claims(as the ethical consequences of free choice)
    Rights or demands that are so fundamental they cannot be broken or taken away under any circumstances.
    Post-mortem(as used to describe the time after someone's death)
    The Latin phrase meaning 'after death'; refers to the period after someone has died.
    free acts(Kant's compatibilist taxonomy of event types in the New Elucidation)

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    Events that possess sufficient ability to withstand external forces, distinguished from necessary consequents by their degree of determining power
    habituation(Used in the habituation phase of the Baillargeon et al. 1985 screen-rotation experiment)
    The process by which an infant's looking time decreases as a stimulus becomes familiar and no longer novel.

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