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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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