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In reply to David Potts. Consider Bill, the garbage-dumper. Suppose that, given his asshole-y motivational set, he “cannot bring himself” to refrain from dumping the garbage (and suppose that, for whatever reason and by whatever mechanism, …

In reply to David Potts. The normative element here is just one having normative reason (not just motivation) not to meet the proposed requirement. If the reason (or normative pressure) here is strong enough (and perhaps it also needs to be of the righ…

In reply to mlyoung57. Hi Michael, My [4] is quite similar to your proposal: proposed moral requirements are ruled out if they are unreasonable. I would cash out ‘reasonable’ here in Scanlonian contractualist terms, as something like the proposed moral…