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Voluntary action, choice and moral responsibility (Moral Responsibility…

- - - - Neither animals or children ever act voluntarily
      - Odd to say what we ought to do is not voluntary
      - Actions done from desire or emotion are pleasant, not painful. While the prospect of what is pleasant does not force us to act
      - Our desires and emotions are no less part of us than reason.
  - - - Negative not positive
      - When acting involuntarily we often do so with pain and regret
    - - This should be voluntary
      - Avoiding greater evil are the right actions to choose
      - Praise and blame attaches to what is voluntary
- - - - Someone who resists temptation acts on choice, but against their desire
      - It isn't 'wish' since you can wish for what is impossible and things you can do nothing about, but choice relates to what we can actually do. What we wish for is an end but that is not what we choose
      - Isn't a kind of opinion
      - Choice relates to voluntary action
  - - - Facts
      - We investigate these
    - - I might deliberate about whether something is worth the effort
      - May have two ends to the conflict
      - Aristotle
        
        Don't deliberate ends as ends
        
        We always have some end in view
        
        Whatever we consider is as means to ends
- - - - Most errors of this kind are caused by pleasure
  - - - We have the power to choose
        
        Bad actions are voluntary
    - - Pointless
        
        Bad actions are voluntary
    - - They are not morally responsible
    - - Responsible for becoming bad
      - Ignorant of what is good
    - - Responsible for lacking knowledge of what is good