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    It is not the case that The moral permissibility of a self-regarding act cannot be established solely by appealing to the absence of blame for lesser omissions of the same duty.

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    • 1.If lesser omissions are blameless, the duty's stringency cannot justify condemning the act.
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    • 2.Moral permissibility often depends on comparative standards: what matters is meeting reasonable expectations.
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    • 3.The claim conflates different things: blame-worthiness and permissibility aren't strictly separable categories.
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    • 1.Permissibility requires positive justification, not mere absence of blame for partial failures.
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    • 2.Lesser omissions may be blameworthy but still leave the act itself morally impermissible.
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    • 3.A duty's comparative violation doesn't establish that satisfying it less fully makes the act permissible.
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