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    Desert claims presuppose robust metaphysical free will, w... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Positive retributivism holds that desert provides an in-principle sufficient reason for punishment, though only in principle.

    Desert claims presuppose robust metaphysical free will, which hard determinists like Derk Pereboom argue is empirically undermined.

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    • 1.Neuroscience shows brain activity precedes conscious decisions, undermining the libertarian free will desert requires.
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    • 2.If all events follow from prior causes and physical laws, agents lack the control necessary to deserve praise or blame.
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    • 3.Desert judgments attribute moral responsibility presupposing agents could have acted otherwise—impossible under determinism.
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    • 1.Desert can rest on compatibilist freedom: agents deserve blame when they act on their own desires and reasoning.
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    • 2.Neuroscientific evidence of prior brain activity doesn't prove consciousness plays no role in decision-making causation.
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    • 3.Practical accountability systems (justice, praise, blame) require only agent control over behavior, not metaphysical libertarianism.
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