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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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