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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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