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    It is not the case that The equivalence claim collapses a normative-forensic question about moral and legal accountability into a purely metaphysical persistence question, obscuring their distinct explanatory roles.

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    • 1.Accountability inherently requires that the entity now present is the same entity who acted; persistence is logically prior to accountability.
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    • 2.Distinguishing accountability from persistence artificially fragments a unified phenomenon: we hold X responsible because X persists as the agent.
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    • 1.Moral accountability requires assessing agent responsibility at time of action, independent of metaphysical facts about identity persistence.
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    • 2.Legal systems operate on retributive and deterrent principles that don't depend on solving metaphysical persistence questions.
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    • 3.Conflating these domains creates incoherent results: beings identical by metaphysical criteria may lack moral culpability for prior actions.
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