| Can we fill in the lacuna which the pessimist finds in the optimist's account of the concept of moral responsibility? |
| The pessimist may be supposed to ask why freedom in this sense justifies blame. |
| The shop was owned by a bald-headed pessimist who had once been a gold prospector in Canada. |
| Might we not induce the pessimist to give up saying this by giving the optimist something more to say? |
| The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock. |
| It's something that I, as a card-carrying pessimist, have thought about plenty of times before. |
