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    Compatibilism is true — Carmelics
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    Compatibilism is true

    Universalism
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    • 1.Free will requires only acting on one's own desires/values without external coercion, not metaphysical libertarian freedom.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility practices (praise, blame, punishment) are justified and functional only if compatibilism is true.
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    • 3.Determinism is consistent with the causal efficacy of deliberation and reasoned decision-making in human agents.
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    • 1.If all events are determined by prior causes, agents lack ultimate origination of their choices and cannot be truly responsible.
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    • 2.Compatibilist accounts conflate acting on one's desires with genuine freedom—desires themselves might be causally determined.
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    • 3.Intuitive moral responsibility requires the ability to have acted otherwise in identical circumstances, which determinism denies.
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