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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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