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    Blameworthiness requires that an agent possess the capaci... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Individual members of a collectively responsible group are not necessarily blameless for the harms their group causes

    Blameworthiness requires that an agent possess the capacity to have acted otherwise under the same structural conditions.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires freedom; an agent unable to act differently lacks the control necessary for accountability.
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    • 2.Our practices of praise and blame presuppose agents could have done otherwise; removing this capacity undermines their justification.
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    • 3.Punishment is only fair when directed at those who possessed genuine alternatives; otherwise we penalize necessity, not choice.
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    • 1.The capacity to act otherwise is likely incompatible with causal determinism; requiring it makes most people never blameworthy.
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    • 2.Blameworthiness can track moral reasons and character flaws independent of metaphysical freedom; capacity isn't the only relevant factor.
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    • 3.No empirical test can verify whether an agent possessed this capacity under identical conditions; the criterion is epistemically inaccessible.
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