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#784 Paul Russell: Free Will and Moral Responsibility

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The Role of Emotional Response in Moral Decision Making

Part of showing that you value and care about certain things like people's moral qualities is having these emotional responses. The law rightly doesn't want intense emotions running riot over people's judgments both about whether people are responsible and what if they are responsible how we should treat them because then you're going to be as it were a hostage to your own kind of emotional intensity. There are real worries about the role of victim impact statements for example.

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