If determinism is true, then can we hold people morally responsible for their actions?
Bryer Sophia-Gardener (William Johnson)
at quora
Degrees of responsibility vary across the animal kingdom. An earthworm’s degree of responsibility is much less than a human’s.
Really, how can it be argued that earthworms have any degree of responsibility at all? And certainly, no moral responsibility. After all, what does it mean to hold an earthworm responsible for behaviors it pursues autonomically given a brain that is little more than the embodiment of biological imperatives?
Degrees of responsibility also vary among humans. Some humans have a greater degree of responsibility (i.e., ability to respond appropriately to their situation) than others.
Okay, let's focus in on Trump 2.0. There's what the Constitution itself says are the responsibilities of the executive branch back then and there's what Donald Musk say instead here and now.
As for responding appropriately, what might that be "for all practical purposes", given a particular context? Then the parts embedded in conflicting goods and dasein. Though, instead, they may well be no less the embodiment of psychological illusions.
The mechanisms on which human responsibility rest are among the most complex mechanisms in the animal world. At least some vertebrates have mechanisms for computing alternative plans and mechanisms for selecting among those alternative plans.
Then the part where the objectivists among us dismiss this complexity. It's simple: you choose their way or it's the highway. And, thus, however far more complex human interactions are it doesn't
necessarily demonstrate autonomy.
Humans excel in the ability to formulate alternative plans that extend well into the future. We also have the ability to select our preference from among those plans. Those abilities are based upon mechanisms in our brain. When we are consciously aware that such a selection between plans has taken place, we call it a “choice”.
Right, a "choice". Along with the assumption, however, for many that it is really a
choice. In other words, free will is merely taken for granted. Either that or God given.