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    Conditions may apply to accountability that do not apply ... — Carmelics
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    Conditions may apply to accountability that do not apply to attributability.

    Moral Responsibility
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    • 1.Accountability practices involve moral demands and potential adverse treatment that raise issues of fairness not present in attributability.
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    • 2.For example, accountability blame should perhaps be moderated in the case of an agent whose squalid circumstances made it overwhelmingly difficult to develop a respect for the standards to which we would hold him accountable.
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    • 1.Attributability already presupposes normative standards against which actions are assessed, making fairness conditions implicit in any genuine attribution of moral quality.
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    • 2.If an agent's squalid circumstances undermine accountability, they equally undermine whether the vicious action genuinely expresses the agent's own evaluative identity, collapsing the distinction.
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    • 1.On a Strawsonian view, reactive attitudes constitutive of accountability are criterially linked to seeing agents as moral equals, making the fairness conditions Watson cites internal to attributability itself.
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    • 2.Wolf's Reason View entails that an agent who could not have known or done otherwise lacks the authorship conditions for attributability, so circumstantial excuses already operate at the attributability level.
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    SEP: moral-responsibility
    Watson 1996 [2004], Wolf
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    However, Watson agrees with Wolf that the above story of responsibility is incomplete: there is more to responsibility than attributing actions to agents. In addition, we hold agents responsible for their behavior, which “is not just a matter of the relation of an individual to her behavior” (Watson 1996 [2004: 262]). When we hold responsible, we also “demand (require) certain conduct from one another and respond adversely to one another’s failures to comply with these demands” (Watson 1996 [2004: 262]). The moral demands, and potential for adverse treatment, associated with holding others res...
    Extraction notes

    The passage explicitly states that accountability's features (moral demands and adverse treatment) raise fairness issues not present in attributability, and therefore conditions may apply to accountability that do not apply to attributability, with the moderation of blame in squalid circumstances offered as an example—matching the extracted argument's structure precisely.

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    Confidence: Explicitly stated conclusion with supporting reasoning.

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