ABSTRACT
The conception of responsibility which emerges when the Effort-Thesis is included in the account coheres with an overall ethic of intention. The Effort-Thesis is being advanced as a corrective which would prevent the identification of causal and moral responsibility. An action may be indirectly relevant to the moral evaluation of an agent by revealing a character trait whose presence is directly relevant. The role of the individual context of action may further be underscored by noting the irrelevance even of such elements of character as strength of will. Although the disposition of the counterfactual intervener renders the action unavoidable, it does not necessitate the action in one sense of 'necessitate'. The disposition guaranteed, but did not determine the action. The incompatibilist is concerned about the consequences to the agent's moral responsibility of the operative sufficient condition, not merely of some condition whose presence insures the outcome.
