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    Restricting moral evaluation to proximate consequences se... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Proximate consequentialism makes it easier for agents and observers to justify moral judgments of acts.

    Restricting moral evaluation to proximate consequences severs the agent from responsibility for foreseeable downstream harms, violating core intuitions about moral accountability.

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    • 1.Agents possess cognitive capacities to foresee likely downstream effects of their actions within reasonable probability ranges.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility requires agents be accountable for harms they could have reasonably prevented through different choices.
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    • 3.Limiting accountability to proximate consequences creates moral gaps where predictable harms escape evaluation entirely.
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    • 1.Causal chains become speculative at distance; attributing responsibility requires clear causal links, not mere possibility.
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    • 2.Agents cannot control or fully predict complex systems; holding them accountable for distant effects exceeds their actual power.
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    • 3.Proximate consequences focus accountability where agents have greatest knowledge and control, maintaining moral clarity.
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