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"Moral agent" is a term us to distinguish someone who can be held accountable for ethical decision-making from others whose decisions and actions may cause harm or even death, but the person is not seen as capable of moral responsibility. There are two requirements of moral agency. These are: (a) Cognition: The capacity to know a decision or act is good v. evil.
(b) Volition: The freedom to choose one course of action as opposed another. In the first requirement (that of cognition) we would not consider a person a moral agent unless they could tell good from evil. This is the requirement of moral knowledge. Generally children are not considered capable of distinguish fact from fantasy and, thus, good from evil. Consequently, we tend not to hold children to the same standards of conduct as adults are held to. In the second requirement (that of volition), we would ordinarily not consider a person accountable for their acts if those acts were not freely chosen. This is the requirement of free will. If the person were biologically or socially determined or if the person were under a threat of violence or coercion, it is hard to consider their actions freely chosen.