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    If there is no determinate real self, then grounding resp... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Real Self views have some explanatory merit regarding moral responsibility.

    If there is no determinate real self, then grounding responsibility in alignment with it yields indeterminate or arbitrary attributions of blame.

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    • 1.Responsibility requires a stable reference point; without a determinate self, we lack criteria for distinguishing authentic from inauthentic choices.
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    • 2.Blame attribution presupposes desert; if the self is indeterminate, we cannot identify who deserves blame or what degree of culpability applies.
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    • 3.Legal and moral systems depend on consistent identity; indeterminate selves would make punishment arbitrary since we couldn't reliably re-identify the responsible agent.
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    • 1.Responsibility may ground in causal narrative and behavioral dispositions rather than metaphysical self-identity; determinacy of action suffices for accountability.
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    • 2.All responsibility-grounding faces the same challenge; even robust selves require external standards to determine blame, so indeterminacy adds no unique problem.
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    • 3.Practical social systems assign responsibility through functional roles and institutional criteria, not metaphysical facts about the self's determinacy.
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