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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (577559)7/28/2010 1:55:46 PM
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"(x) So ultimate, buck-stopping moral responsibility is impossible, because it requires ultimate responsibility for how one is; as noted in (iii)."

False. Galen makes his argument around the responsibility for 'what happens', by holding the doer morally responsible for what he does. What is manifest in the world is not under the ultimate control of an individual and he makes that case very well, but that is not where moral responsibility is bound.

Example: I can make the intention to listen closely to you, so as to hear exactly what you say and interpret it properly, which is a moral decision. A jet plane might then take off right over our heads, so that I miss much of what you are saying, or you may be intentionally misleading me with the information you deliver, so that my proper interpretation is impossible.

I am therefore not ultimately responsible for the act of hearing or interpreting properly. I am ultimately responsible for my choice to listen and my intention to get a proper interpretation.

Moral responsibility has to do directly and ultimately with circumstantial choice and intention, not with what happens. Tripping, failing to overcome obstacles, or any influences that are not bound in conscious moral decision making are not elements of moral responsibility. What one does, does not always follow what one intends to do.
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