Option 2. In this paper you will develop your preferred response to the following line of incompatibilist reasoning. Read and reflect on the argument given in quotes below. Begin your paper by briefly setting out the argument in the passage, and its conclusion. Then assess whether the reasoning is convincing. Be sure to discuss either the relationship between responsibility and free will, or else the relationship between our actions being determined and our having free will. What does it take for a will to be free? (You can draw on Holbach, and Frankfurt. But do not quote, or paragraphs closely).
“Suppose a stranger cuts in front of you in line at the bank. Hes not a child, hes not insane, and there is no emergency that would justify his rude behavior, so your first reaction is to blame him. You are then informed (say, by a scientist) that his action was determined by forces that were in place before he was born, and as soon as you learn this, you conclude that it would be unfair to blame him. This suggests that if determinism is true, our tendency to hold others responsible for what they do is not justified by ordinary standards and that we fail to notice this in daily life only because we ignore the possibility of determinism.”
Requirements: 700-850 words
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