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    Blame is not undermined by the discovery that a person ha... — Carmelics
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    Blame is not undermined by the discovery that a person had no control over the factors that made them the kind of person they are.

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    • 1.Blame is a reaction to the attitudes a person actually has.
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    • 2.The attitudes a person actually has are not negated by the fact that those attitudes were causally determined.
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    • 1.Reactive attitudes like blame presuppose that the target could have done otherwise, per Strawson's own framework in 'Freedom and Resentment'.
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    • 2.If causal factors outside one's control fully determine one's attitudes, the condition of alternative possibilities is never met.
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    • 3.Without the possibility of having acted differently, the participant stance that grounds blame collapses into the objective stance.
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    • 1.Galen Strawson's Basic Argument establishes that moral responsibility requires being causa sui—the cause of oneself—which no agent can be.
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    • 2.If an agent cannot be responsible for the character traits that produce their attitudes, they cannot be ultimately responsible for the attitudes themselves.
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    Scanlon’s contractualist account of blame sets aside issues of freewill and determinism. Because blame is a reaction to the attitudes a person actually has, it is not undermined by the discovery that he “had no control over the factors that made him the kind of person that he is.” (Scanlon 2008, p. 178) Even if you cannot help being callous, unreliable, and untrustworthy, I cannot be expected to continue to treat you as if you had not revealed that, for whatever reason, that is the kind of perso
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