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    It is not the case that Psychopaths may be held responsible, at least to some extent and in certain ways.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires not merely knowing a rule but caring about it as a moral demand, which psychopaths demonstrably cannot do.
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    • 2.Psychopaths show intact rule-knowledge yet systematically fail to represent moral norms as categorically binding rather than merely conventional.
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    • 3.A capacity that is structurally severed from motivational uptake is not a sufficient capacity for moral responsibility but only its simulacrum.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework grounds responsibility in reciprocal emotional engagement within the moral community.
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    • 2.Psychopaths lack the affective prerequisites—guilt, empathy, indignation—that make reactive attitudes like blame intelligible and fitting responses.
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    • 3.Holding psychopaths responsible thus constitutes a category error: applying practices whose conditions of appropriateness the agent constitutively cannot satisfy.
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    • Even if psychopathy is primarily a cognitive impairment, psychopaths may still possess a sufficient capacity for distinguishing right and wrong, or sufficient related capacities.
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