What they are saying is that how she exercised her free will is irrelevant to the consequences. (...) that she doesn't matter as an agent, even though they aren't denying that she's there by her own agency.
That's pretty much exactly what I meant to say, thanks. And if her reasons for acting in a certain way don't matter, then they are reducing the moral ambiguity - it becomes a simple question of "is action A right or wrong", regardless of the circumstances.
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Date: 2009-02-08 06:09 pm (UTC)That's pretty much exactly what I meant to say, thanks. And if her reasons for acting in a certain way don't matter, then they are reducing the moral ambiguity - it becomes a simple question of "is action A right or wrong", regardless of the circumstances.