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    It is not the case that The wrongness of an act 'in itself' requires a stable, non-contested description of what that act essentially is.

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    • 1.Descriptions of acts are always interpretive layers; no 'essential' act-description exists independent of an agent's perspective or context.
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    • 2.Wrongness can attach to multiple descriptions of the same act simultaneously (lying is wrong both as 'deception' and as 'breaking trust').
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    • 3.Moral properties may be fundamentally relational (concerning intentions, consequences, or relationships) rather than tied to static act-essences.
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    • 1.Moral properties must attach to something determinate; an act without a stable description lacks a clear subject for moral evaluation.
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    • 2.Competing descriptions of the same act (e.g., 'killing' vs. 'self-defense') suggest the act's moral status is description-dependent, not intrinsic.
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    • 3.If an act's wrongness could be true under one description and false under another, wrongness would be relative to interpretation, not objective.
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