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    It is not the case that Conditions may apply to accountability that do not apply to attributability.

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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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    • 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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