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    Without identifying which feature made that war evil, the... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Fighting against the Thebans is evil.

    Without identifying which feature made that war evil, the general proposition 'fighting neighbors is evil' lacks inductive warrant.

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    • 1.Inductive generalizations require identifying the relevant causal feature, or we conflate correlation with causation.
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    • 2.Without specifying whether evil stems from aggression, resource theft, or ideology, we cannot distinguish wars to condemn from justified defensive wars.
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    • 3.A general rule lacking identified warrant is epistemically irresponsible—it invites overgeneralization and false moral conclusions.
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    • 1.Some moral wrongness is self-evident from observable patterns (suffering, destruction) without mechanistic explanation of causation.
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    • 2.Requiring feature-identification before moral judgment paralyzes action; we often identify wrongness before fully explaining mechanisms.
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    • 3.Inductive warrant can rest on convergent empirical outcomes (historical neighbor wars) rather than identified causal features alone.
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