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    Supports→Absolute side-constraints cannot accommodate threshold cases where infinitesimal harms aggregate into serious injustice without principled resolution.

    Sorites-like reasoning shows: if one grain doesn't make a heap, then n+1 grains don't either, yet piles clearly exist—similarly, constraint-respecting actions aggregate into injustice.

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    Constraint-respecting(as used in ethics and moral philosophy)
    Actions that follow the rules or limitations that are supposed to guide behavior—like following laws or ethical guidelines.
    Heap(as used in the sorites paradox)
    In philosophy, a pile or collection of things where the exact boundary of what counts as a 'heap' is unclear or fuzzy.
    Sorites paradox (or sorites-like reasoning)(as used in logic and philosophy)
    A logical puzzle where small, seemingly harmless steps add up to a big change—like how adding one grain of sand doesn't make a heap, but somehow many grains do. The puzzle asks: where exactly does a heap begin?
    aggregate(Avicenna's argument for a necessary existent)
    The totality of all currently existing contingent individual things, each of whose existence is accounted for by its causal antecedents.

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    injustice(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
    A violation of a right.

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