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    Moral responsibility requires that agents could have chos... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Rational beings ought to choose in accordance with what will in fact happen, when they can know what that will be.

    Moral responsibility requires that agents could have chosen otherwise, making outcome-conforming choice a criterion of rationality incoherent.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires the ability to do otherwise; determinism eliminates this ability, making responsibility incoherent.
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    • 2.Rationality cannot require outcomes we cannot control; outcome-conforming choice assumes control we lack under determinism.
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    • 3.Praising or blaming agents for inevitable choices is logically inconsistent with how we justify moral responsibility.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility may require only that choices flow from one's desires and reasoning, not metaphysical alternative possibilities.
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    • 2.Outcome-conforming rationality is coherent as a practical norm: agents should act as though choices matter regardless of determinism.
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    • 3.The ability to choose otherwise may be a useful fiction; responsibility functions socially even if metaphysical foundations are uncertain.
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