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    It is not the case that An agent could have done otherwise even under determinism

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    • 1.Ceteris paribus laws ground only statistical tendencies, not robust alternative possibilities sufficient for moral responsibility.
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    • 2.Frankfurt-style cases show that moral responsibility does not require the ability to do otherwise, making compatibilist appeals to indeterminacy dialectically irrelevant.
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    • 3.If alternative possibilities depend on random quantum fluctuations rather than the agent's own reasons, they cannot constitute the agent-controlled freedom libertarianism requires.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Under determinism, all antecedent conditions plus natural laws fix a unique future, entailing no agent could initiate a genuinely different causal sequence.
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    • 2.Van Inwagen's Consequence Argument demonstrates that if determinism is true, our acts are consequences of laws and remote past events beyond our control, so no agent could have done otherwise.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Not all laws of nature are deterministic
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    • 2.The brain operates based on ceteris paribus laws that include a clause for the absence of external and internal forces
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    • 3.Ceteris paribus laws are sufficient to ground the claim that an agent could have done otherwise
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