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    Challenges→Reid's second argument for moral liberty fails if the sole purposes of punishment are preventative rather than retributive

    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework shows that practices of punishment are embedded in participant stances that cannot be reduced to purely forward-looking consequentialist aims.

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    Forward-looking(describing another function of responsibility practices)
    Focused on the future and what we want to prevent or achieve ahead of time.
    P.F. Strawson(as the author of 'Freedom and Resentment')
    A 20th-century British philosopher famous for analyzing how we actually think and talk about everyday things like freedom and blame, rather than abstract theories.
    Participant stances(as opposed to objective observation)
    The perspective you have when you're actively involved in relationships with others, as opposed to standing back and observing them coldly from the outside.
    Punishment(Locke 1689: sec 8)
    A response to rights violations administered with sufficient severity to deter the offender and others, and to give the offender cause to repent.
    consequentialist

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    (Shared position of Russell and Moore)
    One who believes that the rightness or otherwise of an act is in some way dependent on consequences.
    reactive attitudes(Blame is given as the paradigm case of a reactive attitude)
    Attitudes that agents have towards other agents in response to those agents' behavior
    reduced to(in philosophical analysis)
    Explained away as being nothing more than something else; claiming something is really just a lesser or simpler version of something else.

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