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    It is not the case that P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds moral responsibility in interpersonal relationships of holding and being held to account, not in agent-internal rational capacities.

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    • 1.Grounding responsibility in social practices cannot explain why some communities' responsibility attributions are deeply unjust.
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    • 2.Reactive attitudes depend on agents having rational capacities to understand and respond to criticism—making capacities foundational, not derivative.
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    • 3.A purely relational account struggles to justify responsibility suspension when relationships fail (coma, dementia) but rational capacity persists.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility practices are fundamentally social: we only hold others accountable within communities where reciprocal expectations exist.
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    • 2.Rational capacity accounts struggle to explain why we hold the cognitively disabled responsible for some acts but not others.
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    • 3.Reactive attitudes like resentment and gratitude constitute what responsibility *is*, rather than merely expressing it.
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