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    Supports→The fact that all first-order value is included in the actualized world does not exhaust the reasons bearing on God's choice of action.

    Second-order reasons make a difference in assessing actions in terms of their moral worth.

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    If we think that the evaluation of worlds is distinct from the evaluation of actions, then there is room to resist the move from (3) to (4), and this is indeed the standard point at which to resist. One might object that this resistance is bound to come to nothing. A world is a maximal state of affairs; everything that is morally relevant, and thus can give God reason to choose to actualize one world over another, is included in its value. So it of course follows that, from the deliberative pers

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