The Larger Picture and Its Implications
摘要
Chapter 6 provides a synopsis of the argument so far and applies it to the protest view of blame and attributionism about moral responsibility. It clarifies the point of objectionability as an accountability-related concept concerned with the moral status not of agents but of pieces of conduct. It also suggests a way of reconciling our intuitions about atypical offenders by acknowledging objecting as an accountability response that stands up to objectionable conduct but does not target agents. To defend this, I return to the protest view of blame and attributionism about blameworthiness. I argue that their inclusive construal of blameworthiness is unconvincing once we acknowledge the possibility of conduct-focussed moral responses.