As we shall see, for example, ‘responsibility’, both moral and legal, actually requires determinism. For if determinism were not true, then our actions and choices would not necessarily be caused by who we are. And what “we” (as a set of personality traits, memories, and so on) did not cause, we cannot logically be blamed or praised for. On the other hand, if determinism is true, then our actions and choices, those that have in fact been caused by us—and not by, for instance, our bodies without the involvement of our “selves” (our minds, our thoughts, our personalities)—are necessarily caused
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