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    Reactive attitudes like resentment and indignation presup... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The idea that we are responsible is to be understood by the practice of reactive attitudes, not the other way around.

    Reactive attitudes like resentment and indignation presuppose judgments of desert that have normative content independent of the practice itself.

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    • 1.Moral desert is grounded in agent responsibility, which exists prior to and independent of any social practice or institution.
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    • 2.We can meaningfully criticize practices as unjust only if we appeal to normative standards external to those practices themselves.
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    • 3.Resentment tracks genuine wrongdoing; it would be irrational if desert judgments were merely constitutive of the practice expressing them.
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    • 1.Desert concepts are historically and culturally variable; this variation suggests they are constituted by practices, not grounded independently.
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    • 2.The reactive attitudes themselves partly constitute what counts as deserving; there is no pre-practice normative fact about desert to discover.
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    • 3.Appealing to independent normative content risks infinite regress: what makes those normative standards themselves legitimate or binding?
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