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    Moral responsibility requires sourcehood in the agent, no... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Bert acts freely and is morally responsible for his actions

    Moral responsibility requires sourcehood in the agent, not merely the absence of compulsion or the presence of responsive reasoning.

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    • 1.Mere absence of external compulsion leaves actions potentially traceable to randomness, luck, or prior causes beyond the agent's control.
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    • 2.Desert-based moral responsibility requires that agents author their choices from stable character and values they genuinely possess.
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    • 3.Responsive reasoning without sourcehood makes agents mere conduits for external influences, undermining the control accountability demands.
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    • 1.Sourcehood itself requires explanation: agents' characters originate in genetics, development, and circumstance—sources beyond their control.
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    • 2.Practical accountability systems (legal, social) function effectively using forward-looking reactive attitudes, not metaphysical sourcehood.
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    • 3.The sourcehood requirement risks infinite regress: for agents to be sources, they must have caused their own character-forming capacities.
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