1/We assign responsibility to people as a function of how much we think that responsibility can change their behavior. Ill behaved children and the mentally ill? Our responsibility judgment 'passes through' the individual into the parents, or to shitty brain builds.
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From a utilitarian perspective, there is an optimal way to distribute blame according to this framework. Whatever leads to the best incentives (e.g., don't blame a kid or mentally ill, because blame won't change their actions. Do blame the professional who should know better.)
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I think I like this, but something feels missing to me. Maybe it's due to the extreme difficulty of actually knowing how much blame changes behavior? Or to what extent this is desirable?
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If you think conservatives place the blame on individuals, just wait until one of their 40-year-old boys gets exposed. "In-group Loyalty" as a moral value is much stronger in conservatives when compared to "Fairness".
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Well if free will is an illusion which I'm pretty sure it is then you could argue that no one should take responsibility for anything but this isn't practical and I think the only way to improve your life is to take responsibility for it. Just blaming society gets you nowhere.
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Something that should be unsurprising to you is that socialism has been failing small-scale experiments since the beginning. They never learned anything from those:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen#Models_for_socialism_(1817) …
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