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great paper indepth Praise and Blame in World D         In World D, a world in which people recognize that they do not have free will, it is still possible to maintain a system of praise and blame. The implicit assumption is that praise and blame effect actions such that a person praised for an action is more likely to repeat the action while a person blamed for an action is less likely to commit the …

…both the consequentialist view that praise and blame would effect people's later actions and upon the belief that people are morally responsible for those actions which they themselves cause, even if they could not have acted otherwise under such circumstances. Such a system stands up to the claim that praise and blame lose all meaning in such a world. In fact, they retain much of the common meaning attributed to them in the actual world.