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    It may be unfair to hold JoJo morally responsible for his bad behavior.

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    • 1.JoJo was raised by an evil dictator and as a result became the same sort of sadistic tyrant his father was.
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    • 2.As an adult, JoJo is happy to be the sort of person he is and is moved by precisely the desires he wants to be moved by.
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    • 3.JoJo fulfills important conditions on responsibility such as acting on desires he endorses.
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    • 1.Moral knowledge is accessible through reason and observable suffering, not solely through upbringing or socialization.
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    • 2.JoJo, as an adult with cognitive capacities intact, encounters victims whose pain is perceptible and morally legible without prior training.
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    • 3.An agent who can recognize suffering but chooses not to morally reckon with it bears responsibility for that willful inattention.
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    • 1.Fischer and Ravizza's reasons-responsiveness account holds that responsibility requires only the capacity to recognize and respond to reasons, not actual correct moral belief.
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    • 2.JoJo's mechanism of action is reasons-responsive in the relevant sense if he could, under sufficiently altered incentives, modify his behavior accordingly.
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    • 3.Deprivation of good moral education affects the content of one's values but does not necessarily impair the structural capacity to track reasons that grounds responsibility.
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    SEP: moral-responsibility
    Susan Wolf's (1987) fictional story of 'JoJo'
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    The possibility that moral competence—the ability to recognize and respond to moral considerations—is a condition on moral responsibility has been suggested at several points above (§2.2.1, §2.2.2, §2.3, §3.1.1, §3.1.2). Susan Wolf’s (1987) fictional story of “JoJo” is one of the best-known illustrations of this proposal. JoJo was raised by an evil dictator, and as a result he became the same sort of sadistic tyrant that his father was. As an adult, JoJo is happy to be the sort of person that he is, and he is moved by precisely the desires (e.g., to imprison, torture, and execute his sub...
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    Validity: The argument faithfully reconstructs the reasoning present in the passage: Wolf argues that despite JoJo meeting standard responsibility conditions (premises 2-3), his upbringing (premise 1) plausibly undermined his moral competence (premise 5), which if required for responsibility (premise 4), makes it potentially unfair to hold him responsible—with premise 5 being a reasonable implicit bridging inference clearly entailed by the passage's discussion.

    Confidence: The argument is clearly presented: Wolf uses JoJo to illustrate that satisfying mesh/endorsement conditions is insufficient for responsibility if the agent lacks moral competence. The final premise about deprivation of moral competence is implied by the structure of the argument rather than explicitly stated, but it is clearly entailed.

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