If everything is determined, no one is responsible for anything.

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Holding someone responsible, praising or punishing them, presupposes that they could have than they did.
Likewise, deliberating makes sense only if the outcome is not already settled as one weighs the pros and cons.
A strict determinism removes both presuppositions at once, and with them part of what structures law and moral life.
This cost is no refutation, but it weighs: a thesis that dissolves responsibility must pay the price, or show how to save it otherwise.

Therefore A strict determinism therefore strips responsibility of its usual ground.

Deepenings

The testimony of remorse

Remorse is not mere regret: it carries the stubborn thought "I could have, and should have, acted otherwise".
This moral experience, widely shared and hard to dismiss, gives body to the idea of real alternatives that strict determinism declares illusory.

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