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    Fischer and Ravizza's reasons-responsiveness framework as... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The would-be assassin who did not even try to kill may share the same degree of responsibility as the successful and unsuccessful assassins.

    Fischer and Ravizza's reasons-responsiveness framework assigns responsibility through the actual exercise of one's mechanism of agency, not through counterfactual exercises of it.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility should track what an agent actually did, not hypothetical alternatives they could have done but didn't.
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    • 2.An agent's actual mechanism reveals their true values and character better than counterfactual scenarios about unrealized possibilities.
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    • 3.Basing responsibility on actual exercises avoids the problem of over-attributing responsibility for actions the agent never performed.
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    • 1.Responsibility requires the agent could have acted otherwise; actual mechanism alone cannot establish this crucial modal condition.
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    • 2.A mechanism operating in one instance doesn't prove it would operate correctly when challenged; counterfactuals test robustness of agency.
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    • 3.An agent might exercise their mechanism badly once while remaining responsive; we need counterfactuals to assess overall responsibility.
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