Daniel Dennett asks why anyone would care about whether someone had the property of responsibility and speculates that the idea of moral responsibility may be "a purely metaphysical hankering".
Daniel Dennett stiller spørgsmålet om, hvorfor nogen i det hele taget skulle tage sig af, om nogen har egenskaben ansvar, og antyder, at ideen om moralsk ansvar blot er "et rent metafysisk ønske".