Incapacitating a non-responsible agent while maintaining coercive institutional force against them is internally incoherent within any framework that grounds legitimate detention in agency.
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A person who cannot be held accountable for their actions because they lack the mental capacity to understand what they're doing or control their behavior (like a young child or someone with severe cognitive disabilities).
agency(Used to assess whether switching the trolley is deontologically prohibited.)
A morally relevant sense in which an agent is the direct cause of harm, invoked in deontological constraints; its absence removes a deontological bar to acting.
framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
grounds(Used in the context of justifying beliefs about the future on the basis of past information)
Information or evidence that confers rational entitlement to hold a belief or assumption