Desert

[andie nachgeborenen]

So you stipulate. I don't. And this is irrelevant to
the point that your utilitarianism is indirectly
self-defeating, because it requires you to hope that
people will believe that you think to be false, namely
that people are responsible for their actions or, in
your idiosyncratic sense, deserve to have cdertain
things happen to them as a result of what they do. 
jks

--- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
> Justin wrote:
> > I know no such thing. I expressly deny that
> > proposition. I regard it as absurd on its face.
> > Whether we are moraly responsible for our actions
> does
> > not imply anything about what others may do to us
> for
> > the a tions for which are morally responsible. The
> > latter is the question of desert.
> 
> The question of deserts in its strictest sense it
> not about what others may
> do to us for the actions for which we're morally
> responsible, but rather
> whether it's possible that any action merits praise
> or blame.
> 

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