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So if we accept the defense attorney's argument, it appears that we are committed to the conclusion that no one is ever responsible for anything.
A hard deterministic account of responsibility says that responsibility and determinism are incompatible, that determinism is true, and, hence, that no one is ever responsible for anything.
If hard determinism is true, no one is ever responsible in the requisite way, and the luck egalitarian equality of opportunity conception of distributive justice dictates equality of condition across persons.
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It seemed to mean that no one was ever responsible for anything if only you could tell the truth and most of all if you could say you were sorry.
In mythology at least, he also typifies an old-school sort of gangster: working class, with a code of honour (at his trial, Mr Bulger strongly contested that he was ever responsible for killing women) and a series of nicknamed henchman.
In May, Lindy West, a feminist writer who came to prominence at the Seattle, Washington alternative weekly The Stranger and currently works as a staffer at Jezebel, took part in a televised discussion on the FX channel's Totally Biased about whether jokes about sexual assault are ever responsible, defensible or remotely funny.
Could any of us imagine what kind of country the US would be if it denied that it was ever responsible for the abomination of African-American slavery and segregation?
Of course, there have always been those e.g., hard determinists who have concluded that the conditions on being morally responsible cannot be met and thus that no one is ever morally responsible.
But Britain does sometimes feel like Egypt, a country in which disasters occur but somehow nobody running the country is ever held responsible and where power circulates within a narrow clique.
These considerations seem to imply a choice between two implausible alternatives: either (1) people have free will, in which case a person's actions are not determined by his circumstances, past experiences, and psychological and personality traits, or (2) people do not have free will, in which case no one is ever morally responsible for what he does.
And surely no one factor is ever entirely responsible.
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