Denying conscious control is itself a moral position of nonaccountability

Evidence

Neural networks are nonethical. The unconscious neural processes have neither a sense of personal responsibility nor morality. The issue of morality arises in the purposes to which behavior is put, the means that are used, and the human consequences of the actions. A deterministic thesis that humans have no conscious control over what they do, in fact, is a position on morality—it is one of moral nonaccountability. Such a view is socially consequential. Does a nonagentic conception of human nature erode the personal and social ethics that undergird a civil society? How would people create and maintain a civil society if its members were divested of any conscious regulation for their actions? — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 315

Categorization

• DEFINE: The claim that determinism is not morally neutral but actively ‘one of moral nonaccountability’ reframes a scientific stance as an ethical one.
• DEEPTHINKING: Aristotle’s dictum that man is the author of his own actions hangs over the individual responsibility Bandura claims; the whole passage weighs determinist and moral-accountability frames.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 315
• XREF: connects to: An action is defined by conscious intention, not by its effects; The voluntary act requires reflective consciousness, while involuntary spontaneity remains purely unreflective; Trying to deny one’s responsibility presupposes the very universal value it refuses. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 11 (+3 more)