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    It is not the case that The would-be assassin who did not even try to kill may share the same degree of responsibility as the successful and unsuccessful assassins.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires not merely a disposition to act but the actualization of that disposition through an overt attempt or action.
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    • 2.Kant's distinction between imperfect and perfect duties reflects the philosophical consensus that willing without acting occupies a categorically different moral register than acting itself.
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    • 3.A counterfactual willingness that never manifests under actual circumstances cannot be assessed with the same confidence as demonstrated conduct, making equal responsibility attribution epistemically unjustified.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in Nicomachean Ethics grounds full moral responsibility in praxis—deliberate action—not merely in stable character dispositions or conditional intentions.
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    • 2.The would-be assassin's willingness remains merely hypothetical until tested by actual circumstances, and unhypothesized conditions (e.g., last-minute moral reconsideration) cannot be ruled out.
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    • 3.Fischer and Ravizza's reasons-responsiveness framework assigns responsibility through the actual exercise of one's mechanism of agency, not through counterfactual exercises of it.
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    • 1.The would-be assassin is willing to kill under favorable circumstances.
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    • 2.The degree of responsibility attributed to the successful and unsuccessful assassins may depend not so much on the fact that they both tried to kill as on the fact that they were both willing to kill.
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    • 3.The would-be assassin shares their willingness to kill.
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