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    It is not the case that P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework grounds moral responsibility in interpersonal relationships, not metaphysical luck-free origination.

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    • 1.If responsibility depends entirely on interpersonal attitudes, those attitudes could be wrong or unjust; we need normative grounds beyond mere practice.
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    • 2.Reactive attitudes can justify holding infants or the severely cognitively disabled responsible, suggesting the framework is incomplete without deeper criteria.
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    • 3.Strawson's view struggles with cases where justified attitudes diverge: society wrongly blames someone, yet reactive attitudes still apply.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility practices (blame, gratitude, resentment) are constitutively social; they cannot exist in isolation from relationship contexts.
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    • 2.Metaphysical libertarianism is scientifically unverifiable; responsibility grounded in actual social practices is epistemically more defensible.
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    • 3.Reactive attitudes appropriately modulate based on relational history and context, showing responsibility is fundamentally interpersonal rather than absolute.
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