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    Challenges→Conditions may apply to accountability that do not apply to attributability.

    If an agent's squalid circumstances undermine accountability, they equally undermine whether the vicious action genuinely expresses the agent's own evaluative identity, collapsing the distinction.

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    Key Terms

    Accountability(as used in ethics)
    Being responsible and expected to answer for your actions, including facing consequences if you cause harm.
    Collapsing the distinction(in logic and argumentation)
    Removing or eliminating the difference between two separate ideas, so they become impossible to tell apart.
    Distinction (philosophical)(Godfrey allegedly collapsed a distinction, meaning he failed to keep two separate ideas apart)
    A separation between two concepts or ideas to show how they're fundamentally different—like distinguishing between 'having a color' versus 'being a color.'
    Evaluative identity(personal identity and ethics)
    The core values and beliefs that define who you are as a person—what you think is good or bad, right or wrong.
    Expresses (in philosophical context)

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    (ethics and action theory)
    Shows or reveals something about someone's true character, beliefs, or values through their actions.
    Vicious action(virtue ethics)
    A morally wrong or evil action that comes from a character flaw or bad habit.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor

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