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    Challenges→Having the relevant freedom does not always require an ability to do otherwise in the present, but it does require an ability to have done otherwise at various times in one's life history with respect to character- or motive-forming acts.

    If responsibility requires no alternative possibilities in synchronic cases, extending this requirement diachronically is an ad hoc and unmotivated restriction.

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