"Since we are directly responsible for our attitudes, and since failing to be rational in our attitudes can cause severe moral harm and warrant moral blaming responses, we may hold agents morally accountable who base their attitudes on insufficient reasons. Irrationality is not just some private mistake in our own mind that doesn't concern others. Instead, rationality has its own distinctive significance for our lives with each other by fostering valuable kinds of interpersonal relationships."
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Sebastian Schmidt, Responsibility for Rationality: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind (Routledge, 2025), p. 187
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