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    Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds responsibil... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Non-moral agents should not be attributed moral responsibility.

    Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds responsibility in susceptibility to practices of holding responsible, not in prior moral receptivity.

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    • 1.Responsibility practices (blame, resentment, gratitude) are universal social phenomena that predate moral theory.
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    • 2.Grounding responsibility in susceptibility to these practices avoids circular reasoning about prior moral facts.
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    • 3.This account explains why we hold responsible those who lack explicit moral understanding but participate in social relationships.
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    • 1.Susceptibility to practices alone cannot distinguish justified from unjustified blame—a cult can hold members responsible unfairly.
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    • 2.If responsibility just tracks what practices we engage in, then changing practices could make the innocent responsible and guilty free.
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    • 3.The account assumes reactive attitudes are appropriate responses, but this requires prior standards of moral appropriateness to evaluate them.
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