Individual Responsibility for Collective Actions
In Saba Bazargan Forward & Deborah Tollefsen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Collective Responsibility (2020)
Abstract
This chapter will develop standards for assessing individual moral responsibility for collective
action. In some cases, these standards expand a person’s responsibility beyond what she or he
would be responsible for if performing the same physical behavior outside of a group setting.
I will argue that structural differences between two ideal types of groups— organizations
and goal- oriented collectives— largely determine the baseline moral responsibility of group
members for the group’s collective action. (Group members can be more or less responsible for
collective action beyond that baseline due to personal qualities like knowledge of the intended
collective outcome.) The same individual physical behavior can make the member of a goal-oriented
collective responsible for the entire collective action to an equal degree with her fellow
group members, whereas the typical organization member is only responsible for his contributory
action.
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