Responsibility without alternative possibilities reduces agents to sophisticated mechanisms, stripping the reactive attitudes Strawson identifies as constitutive of moral practice.

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Alternative possibilities(as what the agent supposedly lacks): The ability to have done something different—meaning you could have genuinely chosen a different action under the same circumstances.
Mechanisms(as used to describe biological processes): The specific ways or processes by which something works or produces an effect.
Moral practice(as used in ethics): The actual way people behave and make decisions about right and wrong in their daily lives.
Strawson: # Strawson Peter Strawson was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for challenging the traditional view that all meaningful statements must be either true or false. He argued that some statements—like "The present King of France is bald"—are neither true nor false because they fail to properly refer to anything that exists. His work fundamentally changed how philosophers think about language, meaning, and logic.

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