Strawson's Argument Analysis

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Strawson claims that the basic argument is a valid argument being that no one is truly morally responsible for their actions. He provided a vast amount of reasons to back this notion up. I Do agree with him that people don't entirely have free will. You didn't create your self so can't be in charge of what the end game is. when everyone was created they had their lives planned out for them like when people say fate, it was ment to happen. That because people don't have a choice of what happens. Everything happens because it was planned out for us. People do what they do, because of the way they are and created. since we didn't create our selfs means we have no say over what we do. We cant even change the end game awards and punishments because

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