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    A person's revealed attitudes are morally relevant bases ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is reasonable to revise how one treats a person who has revealed callous, unreliable, or untrustworthy attitudes, even if that person could not help being that way.

    A person's revealed attitudes are morally relevant bases for adjustment only if they were formed under conditions of sufficient epistemic and volitional control, which the claim explicitly denies.

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    Bases for adjustment(in ethics)
    Reasons or foundations that justify changing how we judge someone or treat them morally.
    Epistemic control(in philosophy of knowledge and ethics)
    The ability to know and understand what you're doing—basically, whether you had good information and understood the situation clearly.
    Revealed attitudes(in ethics and decision-making)
    The beliefs, preferences, or values that people show through their actual choices and actions, rather than what they say they believe.
    Sufficient conditions(used to explain what makes an event happen)
    A set of circumstances that guarantee something will happen—if all these conditions are present, the outcome must occur.
    Volitional control(in ethics and philosophy of action)

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    The ability to freely choose and control your own actions; whether you acted of your own will without being forced or manipulated.
    morally relevant(as used in ethics)
    Something that matters when deciding whether an action is right or wrong.

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