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    Demanding self-creation as a condition of responsibility ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The defendant is not responsible for his action because he did not make himself.

    Demanding self-creation as a condition of responsibility generates an infinite regress, since any prior self-creating act would itself require a yet-earlier self-creating self.

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    • 1.Infinite regress problems typically indicate a flawed foundational assumption in the theory generating them.
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    • 2.If responsibility requires self-creation, and self-creation requires a prior self, we face an impossible bootstrapping problem.
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    • 3.Responsibility theories should not demand metaphysically impossible conditions like originating oneself from nothing.
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    • 1.Regress arguments don't refute a position; they only show that the grounding must be foundational rather than infinite.
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    • 2.Responsibility might require only that one's actions flow from one's own character, not that one created that character.
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    • 3.Many legitimate concepts (like causation) involve origins that don't require infinite prior causes without losing validity.
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