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    It is not the case that Guidance control is (partially) dependent on responsiveness to reasons.

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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical mesh theory grounds guidance control in the structural relationship between first- and second-order desires, not in reasons-responsiveness.
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    • 2.An agent whose will conforms to her reflectively endorsed second-order volitions exercises guidance control even if she would not respond differently to external reasons.
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    • 3.This entails that guidance control is fully explicable without making responsiveness to reasons a partial constitutive condition, contra Fischer and Ravizza.
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    • 1.Agents with certain phobias or OCD act from compulsion yet retain guidance control over peripheral behaviors, showing responsiveness and control can dissociate.
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    • 2.If guidance control can be present where reasons-responsiveness is locally absent, responsiveness is not a necessary condition for guidance control.
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    • 1.An agent under hypnosis, brainwashing, or irresistible urges is not responsive to reasons—his behavior would be the same no matter what reasons there were.
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    • 2.Such agents lack guidance control and are therefore not morally responsible.
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