The supportingargument's premise that blame requires the judgment that the agent had reasons smuggles in a contested internalist assumption about reasons that the amoralist case directly refutes.
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A philosophical construct of a person wholly lacking a sense of justice or moral motivation; in actuality, such persons are sociopaths.
blame(Scanlon's contractualist account)
A reactive attitude directed at the attitudes a person actually holds, not a judgment about whether the person could have done otherwise.
internalism/internalist(in philosophy of action and ethics)
The view that reasons for doing something must be connected to what a person actually wants or values—you can't have a reason to do something if you don't care about it at all.
reasons(in philosophy of action)
Factors or considerations that motivate or justify a choice or belief.