Consequentialism and the Responsibility of Children: A Forward-Looking Distinction between the Responsibility of Children and Adults

Abstract In this paper I provide a forward-looking account of the difference between responsibility children and adults. do so by means criticizing agency-cultivation accounts responsibility. According to these accounts, justification for holding person norm is cultivation their moral agency, are, just like adults, considered responsible extent that they can have agency cultivated in manner. Like many claim purpose adults norms similar norms. argue justifications are different because particular ways which be disagreement with one another, consequences has. Moral relevant consequentialist it impacts on whether how we secure beneficial outcomes via someone norm. One upshots analysis qualitatively from why should hold