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    By parallel reasoning, agents with deeply entrenched vici... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There is an asymmetry between the conditions for freely doing right and freely doing wrong.

    By parallel reasoning, agents with deeply entrenched vicious dispositions act wrongly from similarly stable character necessity and remain fully blameworthy.

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    • 1.Blame tracks moral agency. If vicious agents retain agency despite entrenchment, they retain blameworthiness regardless of causal stability.
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    • 2.Virtue and vice are character states we cultivate. Deeply entrenched vice reflects past choices, making present blame justified by prior responsibility.
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    • 3.Excusing stable vicious conduct would unfairly shield wrongdoers from accountability while holding righteous agents accountable for stable virtue.
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    • 1.If disposition is sufficiently entrenched through conditioning or circumstance beyond agent's control, the agent lacks the control required for blame.
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    • 2.Blame presumes realistic alternative possibilities. Deeply entrenched dispositions eliminate such possibilities, undermining blameworthiness.
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    • 3.The parallel claim proves too much: stable virtuous dispositions wouldn't justify praise if entrenchment eliminates control, so stable vice shouldn't justify blame.
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