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It is not the case that Reactive attitudes like resentment and indignation presuppose judgments of desert that have normative content independent of the practice itself.
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Desert concepts are historically and culturally variable; this variation suggests they are constituted by practices, not grounded independently.
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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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Appealing to independent normative content risks infinite regress: what makes those normative standards themselves legitimate or binding?
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Moral desert is grounded in agent responsibility, which exists prior to and independent of any social practice or institution.
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We can meaningfully criticize practices as unjust only if we appeal to normative standards external to those practices themselves.
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Resentment tracks genuine wrongdoing; it would be irrational if desert judgments were merely constitutive of the practice expressing them.
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