An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

On this view, blame needs necessity. You hold people responsible because an act came from their character. About 59% of philosophers in a 2020 survey hold a view of this kind, but their opponents deny the dispute was ever just about words.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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