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    Procrastinate is obligated to agree to review the paper — Carmelics
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    Procrastinate is obligated to agree to review the paper

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    • 1.An agent is obligated to perform acts that are part of the best series of acts the agent can perform over the course of their life
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    • 2.Agreeing to review the paper is part of the best series of acts Procrastinate can perform over the course of her life
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Procrastinate is obligated to agree to review the paper and then write the review
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    • 2.The Obligation Distribution Condition (ODC) holds that if an agent is obligated to perform a conjunctive action, the agent is obligated to perform each conjunct
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    • 1.An agent is obligated only to perform acts they will actually complete, not acts they will foreseeably fail to fulfill.
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    • 2.Procrastinate will foreseeably fail to write the review if she agrees, making agreement itself harmful rather than obligatory.
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    • 3.Obligations cannot coherently attach to acts whose performance predictably produces worse outcomes than non-performance.
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    • 1.The Obligation Distribution Condition fails because conjunctive obligations do not distribute across conditionally dependent conjuncts.
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    • 2.If fulfilling the second conjunct (writing the review) is causally contingent on the first, the obligation is holistic and cannot be decomposed into independent duties.
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    SEP: actualism-possibilism-ethics
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    There are other views that deviate from the above standard definitions of possibilism. Carlson (1995: 99–109; 1999) defends a view that bears resemblance to possibilism in which the sole obligatory act-set is a unique minimally specific invariably optimal act-set. At t an act-set is optimal for an agent S just in case its outcome is at least as good as any other act-set that is performable for S at t. An invariably optimal act-set is one which is optimal no matter what S does at t. An invariably
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