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    Treating the loose league as merely instrumental subordin... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Kant's defense of the loose league is more consistent when interpreted as an advocacy for the loose league as a first step toward a stronger federation with coercive powers.

    Treating the loose league as merely instrumental subordinates its intrinsic legitimacy to a teleological endpoint Kant himself warned against.

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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative demands treating entities as ends-in-themselves, not mere means to external goals.
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    • 2.A loose league possesses inherent value through its members' autonomous decision-making and voluntary association.
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    • 3.Subordinating it instrumentally to future outcomes violates the dignity of its constituent actors in the present.
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    • 1.All organized human institutions necessarily serve purposes beyond themselves; pure intrinsic value is conceptually incoherent.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'intrinsic' from 'instrumental' value assumes a false dichotomy—leagues can simultaneously embody both.
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    • 3.Kant's warnings target *using* rational beings without consent, not rational strategic planning by consenting participants.
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