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    It is not the case that Moral responsibility, as P.F. Strawson argues in 'Freedom and Resentment', is constitutively linked to reactive attitudes like blame and resentment.

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    • 1.Reactive attitudes can be inappropriate or unjust even if genuinely felt. Circularity: we need independent grounds to evaluate them.
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    • 2.People can deserve blame even when no one actually blames them. Responsibility seems to exist independent of anyone's attitudes.
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    • 3.The account conflates the *practice* of holding responsible with the *conditions* that make responsibility justified or appropriate.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility is a social practice, not a metaphysical fact. It exists only within our system of reactive attitudes.
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    • 2.Blame and resentment are the natural human responses that constitute holding someone responsible in everyday life.
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    • 3.Attempts to ground responsibility in abstract metaphysics (free will, desert) fail; the reactive attitude framework explains what we actually do.
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