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    Crowds and rioters are appropriate sites of collective responsibility.

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    • 1.Crowds and rioters perform their acts as members of a group.
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    • 2.Acting as a member of a group is sufficient for collective responsibility, even if individual members do not think of themselves as acting in that capacity.
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    • 1.Collective responsibility requires a structured decision-procedure or organizational framework through which the group can act as a unit (French, 1984).
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    • 2.Crowds and mobs lack internal decision-making structures, shared policies, or mechanisms for authorizing action on behalf of the group.
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    • 3.Without such structures, crowd behavior reduces to aggregated individual acts, making only individual members—not the collective—the appropriate locus of responsibility.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires that the agent could have done otherwise under relevantly similar conditions (the principle of alternate possibilities).
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    • 2.Crowd psychology, as documented by Gustave Le Bon and later by social identity theorists, shows individuals in mobs undergo deindividuation, significantly impairing autonomous deliberation.
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    • 3.Attributing collective responsibility to crowds obscures the diminished voluntariness of individual participants while falsely constructing an agent that never possessed genuine rational control.
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    Mobs are often thought to be the last groups that we should be tying to hold collectively responsible. For, they completely lack decision-making procedures, their members are seemingly not related, and they are often chaotic and irrational. But, Larry May (1987), Raimo Tuomela (1989), and others argue, we can nevertheless hold mobs collectively responsible if at least some of their members contribute directly to harm and others either facilitate these contributions or fail to prevent them. For,
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