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    It is not the case that A person who acts under hypnosis, brainwashing, or genuinely irresistible urges may not be morally responsible for her behavior.

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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical mesh theory holds that responsibility depends on whether first-order desires align with second-order volitions, not on the causal history of those desires.
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    • 2.A person under hypnosis whose induced behavior coheres with her higher-order endorsed values acts from her own will in the sense Frankfurt requires for responsibility.
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    • 3.Therefore, hypnotic causation does not automatically preclude the structural conditions Frankfurt identifies as sufficient for moral responsibility.
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    • 1.Dennett argues that 'genuinely irresistible' urges are nearly impossible to verify empirically and collapse into the unfalsifiable claim that the agent simply did not resist.
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    • 2.If the distinction between irresistible and merely unresisted urges cannot be principled, the exempting category loses the normative weight Fischer and Ravizza assign to it.
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    • 1.If a person's behavior is brought about by hypnosis, brainwashing, or genuinely irresistible urges, she does not reflectively guide her behavior in the way required for moral responsibility.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility requires guidance control over one's behavior.
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