(November 11, 2020 at 9:01 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: We teach our kids plenty of lessons by maintaining instructive fictions - and I don't doubt the instructive nature of this fiction any more than I doubt those others.
Still...fiction. If moral responsibility requires a moral agent and a moral choice, then a non-moral agent with no moral choice cant be held morally responsible. Do we agree or disagree, here?
We disagree. You're doing evil, you know it's wrong, therefore you should be held responsible for it. You may not be in control, but that doesn't change the fact that you're doing evil and need to be punished for it. Again, you can call it unfair if you wish, but it's unfair for a good reason. This is the last I'm discussing this with you...it's only been for H. Skeptic's benefit.
(November 11, 2020 at 9:01 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I can understand why you might imagine things to be this way if this is your own life experience. It's not mine.
You're saying you've never defiled your own conscience? If so, I don't believe you...unless you have some sort of devil that has made you a sociopath, which I suppose could be possible.