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    It is not the case that It may be unfair to hold JoJo morally responsible for his bad behavior.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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