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Free choices are not in fact required for moral responsibility. The question is often asked: "If nobody
can make any free choices, then how can we hold anyone morally responsible?" But this completely
forgets that if nobody really can make any free choices, it follows that we ourselves are not free to
refrain from holding a thief or a murderer morally responsible, any more than the thief or murderer
was free to refrain from stealing or murdering. If a thief was not free, then neither are we free to let us
be persuaded that this somehow lets him off the hook.
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