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    It is not the case that The more one sins, the more their cognitive capacities are lost

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    • That argument is stupid
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    • If that argument is stupid, then it is not that the more one sins, teh more their cognitive capacities are lost
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of moral habituation holds that repeated vicious acts corrupt practical reason (phronesis), degrading one's capacity for sound judgment.
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    • 2.Aquinas argues in Summa Theologiae (I-II, Q.85) that sin diminishes the natural inclination to virtue, progressively clouding the intellect's orientation toward truth.
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    • 3.A pattern of vicious choice systematically narrows the agent's perceived option set, constituting a measurable reduction in practical cognitive scope.
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    • 1.Contemporary addiction neuroscience confirms that repeated morally destructive behaviors structurally alter prefrontal cortex function, impairing deliberative reasoning.
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    • 2.If repeated wrongdoing produces neurological degradation of deliberative faculties, then the claim that sin erodes cognitive capacity has robust empirical grounding.
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    • 3.The dismissal of an argument as 'stupid' without substantive counter-reasoning is itself an informal fallacy (ad hominem abusive) and carries no logical weight.
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