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    It is not the case that The defendant is not responsible for his action because he did not make himself.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires only the capacity for rational self-governance at the time of action, not authorship of one's causal origins.
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    • 2.Frankfurt's hierarchical compatibilism shows an agent is responsible when their action flows from endorsed second-order desires, regardless of how those desires originated.
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    • 3.Demanding self-creation as a condition of responsibility generates an infinite regress, since any prior self-creating act would itself require a yet-earlier self-creating self.
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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds responsibility in the quality of will expressed toward others, not in metaphysical self-authorship.
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    • 2.Practices of holding responsible are constitutive of moral community membership, and suspending them wholesale on incompatibilist grounds would dissolve morally indispensable human relationships.
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    • 1.A person is only responsible for an action if they made themselves (i.e., are the author of their own character and dispositions).
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    • 2.The defendant did not make himself — he is a product of heredity and environment.
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