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    It is not the case that P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds moral responsibility in natural participant stances of resentment, indignation, and moral anger toward wrongdoers.

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    • 1.Natural attitudes can be epistemically unreliable; widespread resentment doesn't establish actual moral responsibility or desert.
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    • 2.Grounding responsibility in emotions leaves it hostage to psychological variations, cultural differences, and individual temperament differences.
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    • 3.Some wrongdoers deserve accountability despite our inability to feel appropriate reactive attitudes toward them due to psychological distance.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility practices are deeply embedded in human nature; reactive attitudes reflect our actual engagement with accountability.
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    • 2.Grounding responsibility in natural attitudes avoids artificial metaphysical commitments while explaining why we hold people accountable.
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    • 3.Reactive attitudes like resentment serve essential social functions in regulating behavior and maintaining cooperative relationships.
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