Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?

[Anomalocaris]

If determinism is true, then moral responsibility cannot exist. Moral bad actors have no free will, and the members of society who punish them have no free will.  It's a wash.

Boru

Not true.  Moral responsibility is a perception, and in a deterministic world it is a deterministic perception. Whether it will exist or not is dependent on the neurological workings that facilitates it, and at a fundamental level independent of whether the rhetorical basis for its existence is actually paralleled in the real workings of the real world.