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    The claim therefore fails to establish a genuine category... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Not all pleasure and pain in the world is produced by the actions of virtuous or vicious people.

    The claim therefore fails to establish a genuine category of evil beyond the reach of agent-based moral explanation.

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    • 1.All moral wrongs ultimately reduce to choices or omissions by responsible agents accountable for their actions.
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    • 2.If evil exists independently of agent behavior, we cannot explain why holding agents responsible is justified.
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    • 3.Structural or systemic harms are best understood as aggregations of individual decisions, not irreducible phenomena.
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    • 1.Systemic injustices can persist and cause harm even when no individual agent consciously intends or chooses them.
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    • 2.Agent-based explanations often obscure how institutions distribute agency unequally, making some harms structural.
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    • 3.Natural disasters and diseases cause genuine moral harm that no agent explanation can account for or prevent.
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