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    Desert claims require a robust notion of free will that i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Punishment of wrongdoers is justified by the moral desert of the offender.

    Desert claims require a robust notion of free will that is undermined by deterministic causal accounts of human behavior.

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    • 1.Desert (what people deserve) requires moral responsibility, which requires that agents could have acted otherwise in identical circumstances.
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    • 2.Determinism entails that given prior states and laws, only one future action is possible, eliminating genuine alternative possibilities.
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    • 3.Without alternative possibilities, holding someone responsible for outcomes they couldn't avoid is conceptually incoherent and unjust.
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    • 1.Compatibilists show that free will requires only acting on one's desires and reasoning without external coercion, compatible with determinism.
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    • 2.Desert judgments track actual character and decision-making dispositions; determinism doesn't undermine the reality of these differences between people.
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    • 3.The intuition that 'could have done otherwise' requires libertarian free will confuses metaphysical possibility with the relevant moral sense of avoidability.
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