Ethics and Values / Unit 1 Ethics 031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Universal Excuse
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The idea
The universal excuse reasons that if determinism is true, nobody is ever responsible; the reasoning works only with incompatibilism added as a premise.
In practice
A student blames brain chemistry for a missed deadline. The excuse quietly assumes the compatibilist is wrong — and argues none of it.
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