normative

Self-creation makes adults non-absolutely responsible

Moral education works and makes people into self-controlling autonomous adults; you are non-absolutely but practically responsible for who you are because 20-year-old you made 21-year-old you, which made 40-year-old you — just as someone who builds a robot that kills is responsible for it — so part of being an adult is recognizing a duty to maintain oneself as a reliable self-controller.

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Speaker

Dan Dennett

Evidence Quote

we have a responsibility we have a duty to maintain ourselves as self-controllers

Source

39 - Free Will RevisitedMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:25:04 AM

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