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    The ability to 'do otherwise' should be analyzed in terms... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→You will not perform any future act freely.

    The ability to 'do otherwise' should be analyzed in terms of what would have been believed had you chosen differently, not what was in fact believed.

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    • 1.Actual beliefs are causally determined by prior conditions, so moral responsibility cannot depend on them.
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    • 2.Counterfactual analysis better captures agents' capacity for rational self-governance than facts about causation.
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    • 3.What we would believe under different choices reveals our actual reasoning abilities independent of luck.
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    • 1.Counterfactual beliefs are equally determined by prior conditions; shifting analysis doesn't solve determinism.
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    • 2.Responsibility requires control over actual deliberation, not hypothetical scenarios we never face.
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    • 3.The claim confuses epistemic access (what we know about capacity) with metaphysical facts about free will.
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