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    The value of libertarian free will depends upon the range... — Carmelics
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    The value of libertarian free will depends upon the range of actions open to the agent.

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    • 1.Agents could be free in a libertarian sense even if they did not have the power to inflict great harm upon others.
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    • 2.If the possible actions open to one vary enormously in moral worth, then libertarian free will is very valuable.
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    • 3.If the variation in the moral status of what one can do is very limited, then libertarian free will adds much less to the world, resulting in a 'toy world' where one has very little responsibility for the well-being of others.
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    • 1.The intrinsic value of libertarian free will derives from the metaphysical structure of self-determination, not from the scope of available options.
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    • 2.Kant's autonomy thesis holds that rational self-legislation has unconditional worth independent of the empirical content of the choices available.
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    • 3.Therefore, a 'toy world' with restricted options does not diminish the value of free will itself, but only the value of its consequences.
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's free will defense requires only that agents possess genuine alternative possibilities, not that those alternatives span a wide range of moral harm.
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    • 2.A world where agents can choose between moderate goods and moderate evils still instantiates the morally significant freedom that justifies God's non-interference.
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    • 3.Thus the inference from restricted moral range to diminished justificatory value of free will conflates the value of freedom with the value of dramatic moral stakes.
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