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    Therefore, Pereboom's intuition pump about Case 4 misiden... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→No normal person in a causally deterministic universe is morally responsible.

    Therefore, Pereboom's intuition pump about Case 4 misidentifies the relevant condition for moral responsibility.

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    • 1.Case 4 conflates causal history with agent control, but responsibility requires present deliberative capacity, not origin conditions.
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    • 2.Pereboom's pump intuits sameness where the cases differ: only some agents retain reactive attitudes and rational responsiveness to reasons.
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    • 3.If responsibility tracked Pereboom's condition, identical neurological duplicates in different universes would have opposite moral status.
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    • 1.Case 4's intuition pump works precisely because causal history IS relevant to whether an agent is genuinely their own source of action.
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    • 2.Pereboom correctly identifies that determinism plus identical prior states entail identical behavior, undermining agent ownership of choices.
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    • 3.Dismissing his condition as 'irrelevant' requires independent argument that causal history doesn't matter—merely asserting this begs the question.
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