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    It is not the case that No normal person in a causally deterministic universe is morally responsible.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires only reasons-responsiveness: the capacity to recognize and respond to moral reasons, not sourcehood in an indeterministic sense.
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    • 2.Plum in Case 4, as a normal human in a deterministic universe, retains the capacity to recognize and respond to moral reasons.
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    • 3.Therefore, Pereboom's intuition pump about Case 4 misidentifies the relevant condition for moral responsibility.
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    • 1.The analogical inference from Cases 1-3 to Case 4 illicitly smuggles in the intuitions generated by manipulation, which are not present in ordinary determinism.
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    • 2.Frankfurt-style cases demonstrate that moral responsibility is compatible with the absence of alternative possibilities, severing the link between determinism and non-responsibility.
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    • 3.If the manipulation cases trigger intuitions about non-responsibility due to manipulation rather than determinism per se, the analogical ladder to Case 4 breaks at the final rung.
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    • 1.Plum is not morally responsible in Case 4.
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    • 2.In Case 4, Plum is just a normal human being in a causally deterministic universe.
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    • 3.The conclusion drawn about Plum should extend to all other normal persons in causally deterministic universes.
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