13. . . . it is only when it is believed that I could have acted otherwise that I am held to be morally responsible for what I have done. For a man is not thought to be morally responsible for an action that it was not in his power to avoid.Other than placing the premise last, what in the world is wrong with that?
— ALFRED J. AYER, "Freedom and Necessity," Polemic, no. 5, 1946
Who said that every passage was fallacious? ;)