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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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Dan DennettEvidence Quote
“we have a responsibility we have a duty to maintain ourselves as self-controllers”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:25:04 AM
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