<P> John Martin Fischer says that we think the agent is morally responsible for his actions because of what Fischer calls a "flicker of freedom". In the case of Donald his "flicker of freedom" is that he has the opportunity to decide to vote Republican before the device forces him to choose Democrat . Fischer claims these "flickers of freedom" do not exist in a deterministic world ". </P> <P> Michael Otsuka provides a more specific answer to proposed problems with Frankfurt's counterexamples . In his article, Otsuka says, "my strategy is to propose that the Principle of Alternate Possibilities be rejected in favor of a different incompatibilist principle," that is, different from Frankfurt's, "that I call the' Principle of Avoidable Blame' ." </P>

Summary of frankfurt alternate possibilities and moral responsibility