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    It is not the case that Sisyphean and tragic moral traditions (e.g., Camus, Bernard Williams) hold that an agent can be rationally and morally committed to ends known to be unrealizable.

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    • 1.Rational agents must form intentions based on beliefs about achievability; commitment to known impossibility violates practical rationality constraints.
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    • 2.If an end is unrealizable, directing resources toward it is instrumentally irrational; framing it as 'moral commitment' doesn't change this fact.
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    • 3.Meaningful moral agency requires realistic hope; commitment without achievability prospects collapses into performative absurdity or self-deception.
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    • 1.Moral worth can inhere in the struggle itself, independent of success outcomes, making unrealizable commitments rationally justified.
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    • 2.Rationality permits non-instrumental pursuits of intrinsic goods; unrealizable moral ends can be intrinsically valuable regardless of achievement.
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    • 3.Agents demonstrably do commit to impossible goals (justice, unconditional love) while maintaining rational deliberation, suggesting this is coherent.
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