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    It is not the case that The doctrine that victims of natural evil are morally responsible for their suffering is morally objectionable.

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    • 1.To suggest that a victim of natural evil must be morally responsible for that evil adds insult to injury.
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    • 2.Adding insult to injury is morally objectionable.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Kant's humanity formula prohibits treating persons merely as means, which includes instrumentalizing their suffering as evidence of prior wrongdoing.
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    • 2.Attributing moral responsibility to victims of earthquakes or disease treats their suffering as a diagnostic tool rather than respecting their intrinsic dignity.
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    • 3.Any theodicy that systematically converts victims into agents of their own misfortune violates the Kantian prohibition on reducing persons to instruments of cosmic accounting.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Judith Shklar's liberalism of fear identifies victim-blaming as a paradigm case of cruelty, the summum malum that liberal ethics must first and foremost oppose.
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    • 2.Doctrines assigning moral responsibility to natural evil victims reproduce exactly this cruelty by reframing helplessness as culpability.
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    • 3.A moral framework that systematically misidentifies victims as wrongdoers is self-undermining because it destroys the conceptual distinction between perpetrator and victim that grounds moral accountability itself.
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