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    Moral responsibility requires only the capacity to respon... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→No one is ever morally responsible.

    Moral responsibility requires only the capacity to respond to reasons, not access to alternative possibilities (Fischer & Ravizza, 1998).

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    • 1.Agents who understand moral reasons and regulate behavior accordingly demonstrate the capacities we actually care about for responsibility.
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    • 2.Alternative possibilities are metaphysically obscure; responsiveness to reasons is empirically observable and morally relevant.
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    • 3.We hold people responsible in practice based on whether they grasped reasons, not whether they could have literally chosen differently.
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    • 1.Responding to reasons while causally determined by prior events seems to preserve responsibility in name only, not substance.
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    • 2.Unfair to hold someone responsible for how they respond to reasons if they couldn't have developed different responsive capacities.
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    • 3.Moral responsibility intuitively requires that one could have acted otherwise; capacity to respond to reasons doesn't guarantee this.
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