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    If moral desert tracks the quality of the will rather tha... — Carmelics
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    If moral desert tracks the quality of the will rather than outcomes, a purely conduct-based law systematically mismeasures blameworthiness.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility fundamentally depends on the agent's intentions and volition, not merely physical consequences they may not control.
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    • 2.Two agents with identical harmful outcomes but vastly different mental states (recklessness vs. accident) deserve different moral blame.
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    • 3.Conduct-based law punishes the same way regardless of whether harm resulted from moral luck, making punishment systematically unjust.
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    • 1.Outcomes are often the best available evidence of an agent's actual will, since intentions are subjective and easily falsified.
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    • 2.Legal systems must prioritize public protection and deterrence over philosophical theories of desert, and conduct alone fails both.
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    • 3.Perfect will-tracking is epistemically impossible; conduct-based law offers objectivity that intention-based law cannot reliably achieve.
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