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    If responsibility derives solely from reactive practices,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The idea that we are responsible is to be understood by the practice of reactive attitudes, not the other way around.

    If responsibility derives solely from reactive practices, then communities with systematically distorted practices—punishing the innocent, excusing the powerful—would thereby constitute genuine responsibility, which is a reductio of the view.

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    Genuine responsibility(as used in ethics and free will debates)
    Real, meaningful accountability for your choices—the sense that you actually could have done otherwise and deserve credit or blame for what you did.
    derives solely from(describes where responsibility comes from in the argument)
    Comes entirely and only from; has no other source or origin besides.
    reactive practices(what the statement claims responsibility comes from)
    Rules or patterns of behavior that a community uses to respond to actions—like punishment for wrongdoing or reward for good behavior.
    reductio (reductio ad absurdum)(as a logical technique being used in the argument)
    A method of proving something is wrong by showing that if you accept it as true, it leads to an obviously ridiculous or impossible conclusion.

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    responsibility(as used in ethics)
    Being morally accountable for your actions—deserving praise or blame for what you do.
    systematically distorted practices(example of bad practices the statement discusses)
    Rules or patterns that are regularly and deeply unfair in a structured way, not just by accident.
    the view(refers to the claim that responsibility comes only from reactive practices)
    The theory or position being discussed and tested in the argument.

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