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    Restricting outcomes to causal consequences arbitrarily p... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Outcomes in expected-utility calculations must include every relevant consideration, not merely causal consequences

    Restricting outcomes to causal consequences arbitrarily privileges one metaphysical category over others that agents rationally care about.

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    • 1.Agents rationally pursue intrinsic goods like knowledge, virtue, and relationships that aren't reducible to causal effects on future states.
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    • 2.Restricting moral consideration to causal consequences excludes agent intentions, character development, and duties that matter independently of outcomes.
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    • 3.Multiple metaphysical categories (duties, rights, intrinsic values) guide rational deliberation; privileging causation lacks principled justification.
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    • 1.Causal consequences aren't arbitrary—they constitute the only empirically verifiable impact of actions on the world agents inhabit.
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    • 2.Non-causal goods like knowledge and virtue operate through causal mechanisms; distinguishing them privileges intuition over explanatory parsimony.
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    • 3.Rational agency requires some constraint on which outcomes matter morally; restricting to causation provides objective, universalizable criteria.
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