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    It is not the case that A person may be morally responsible for an action despite lacking any ability to do otherwise

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    • 1.All Frankfurt-style cases rely on a counterfactual intervener whose presence itself subtly influences the actual causal sequence.
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    • 2.If the intervener's presence alters the actual sequence, the agent's actual-sequence freedom is compromised, restoring the need for alternatives.
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    • 3.Therefore Frankfurt cases do not isolate moral responsibility from alternative possibilities but instead smuggle in causal interference that undermines the test.
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    • 1.Kant's account grounds moral responsibility in the capacity to act from rational self-legislation, which conceptually requires the ability to have done otherwise.
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    • 2.Responsibility without alternative possibilities reduces agents to sophisticated mechanisms, stripping the reactive attitudes Strawson identifies as constitutive of moral practice.
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    • 3.A practice of blame and praise that cannot distinguish determined mechanisms from genuine agents loses the normative foundation that makes moral responsibility coherent.
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    • 1.Even if Frankfurt's original scenario does not succeed, more complicated Frankfurt-style stories demonstrate that moral responsibility does not require alternative possibilities
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    • 2.These revised stories show agents can be morally responsible without any ability to do otherwise
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