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    Voluntarism is false (or absurd) — Carmelics
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    Voluntarism is false (or absurd)

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    • 1.There are necessary moral truths, such as that it is necessarily wrong to punish one person for a different person's wrongdoing
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    • 2.Voluntarism implies the contrary of these necessary moral truths
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    • 3.A theory that implies the negation of necessary truths implies an absurdity
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    A theory that implies the negation of necessary truths implies an absurdityThere are necessary moral truths, such as that it is necessarily wrong to punish...Voluntarism implies the contrary of these necessary moral truths

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    There are certain things we know to be necessarily true, such as that a contradiction cannot hold and that it must be wrong to punish one person for a different person’s wrongdoing. But voluntarism has the contrary—and thus absurd—implications.
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