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    Treating rights violations as pro tanto reasons converts ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Causing harm provides a pro tanto reason to regulate an action, but this reason may be outweighed by countervailing reasons not to regulate

    Treating rights violations as pro tanto reasons converts deontological constraints into consequentialist trade-offs, collapsing the distinction Nozick argues is morally essential.

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    • 1.Nozick's deontological constraints require absolute inviolability of rights, permitting no trade-offs even to prevent greater violations.
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    • 2.Pro tanto reasons are inherently defeasible weights that can be outweighed by competing considerations in consequentialist calculation.
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    • 3.Treating violations as pro tanto rather than absolute prohibitions logically permits overriding them when consequences justify it.
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    • 1.Pro tanto status allows constraints to persist as genuine moral considerations even when sometimes overridden, avoiding pure consequentialism.
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    • 2.Deontological constraints can themselves be understood as pro tanto: they hold unless other moral reasons (including rights) override them.
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    • 3.The distinction between constraints and trade-offs depends on their weight and override-conditions, not on whether reasons are pro tanto.
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