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i think the most offensive thing about "moderate deontology" / "threshold deontology" is it's complete ignorance of and disrespect to the deontological tradition
its a debate-bro position you're shoved into because you're afraid of having a backbone and biting any bullets. it's cowardly and in the way only aggressive bullies can be.
there is no specific or serious discussion of incurred duties, their sources, or the underlying history. it's an abstract discussion of how this is a logically coherent structure of belief with nothing filled in. it's a dead husk of a play-thing
and yea the thing i'm reading atm is some shitter grad thesis, but they literally have nothing better. and frankly this isn't even some fringe position, it's just a pathetic and intellectually lazy one. they all talk like this, because they don't actually care about ethics, they're failed lawyers