PhilGoetz comments on Separate morality from free will - Less Wrong
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It seems like the right perspective to think about things goes something like this:
Facts about the world can be good or bad. It is good, for instance, when people are happy and healthy, and bad when they are not.
These are all pretty much equally bad, but 4 and possibly 3 are also someone's responsibility, and therefore morality is involved.
Some facts about the world are some people's responsibility. These seem to be some fraction of the facts that are true about their brain - yes 4 but not 2. Good things that are people's responsibility are moral in a different sense than good things that are not people's responsibility.
but this responsibility is philosophically very fuzzy and mostly isn't a useful concept.
What you're saying is true, but doesn't touch on the distinction that the post is about. The post contrasts two positions, both of which would agree with everything you just said.
It's a step on the way to dissolve or pseudo-dissolve the question.