Defense Of Moral Responsibility

The third and the last response defending the possibility of moral responsibility is by Frankfurt. Who proposes that in order to be morally responsible, we do not need to be self-determining but we need to have the ability to form second-order desires. The arguments presenting this are two addicts for whom the drugs are a biochemical necessity. The first addict doesn’t have a second-order desire. According to me, this addict is not a person because animals are the one who usually acts upon their impulses, and that is what the addict did. He took the drugs. For him, the self-determination factor doesn’t apply and neither does the moral