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    It is not the case that There is an asymmetry between the conditions for freely doing right and freely doing wrong.

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    • 1.Frankfurt cases demonstrate that moral responsibility for right action does not require the ability to do otherwise, and this applies symmetrically to wrong action.
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    • 2.If an agent would have performed the wrong act regardless of any intervening factor, they can still be held responsible for wrongdoing without alternative possibilities.
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    • 3.The Frankfurt-style argument against the Principle of Alternative Possibilities applies with equal force to both virtuous and vicious acts, undermining any claimed asymmetry.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in Nicomachean Ethics holds that virtuous agents who have cultivated stable character traits act rightly from necessity of character, yet are fully praiseworthy.
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    • 2.By parallel reasoning, agents with deeply entrenched vicious dispositions act wrongly from similarly stable character necessity and remain fully blameworthy.
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    • 3.If necessitated right action retains moral worth because the agent formed the relevant disposition voluntarily, the same logic preserves culpability for necessitated wrong action, collapsing the asymmetry.
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    • 1.Doing the right thing for the right reasons freely does not require an ability to act otherwise.
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    • 2.Committing a wrong or immoral act freely requires an ability to do otherwise and therefore to refrain from acting wrongly.
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