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    It is not the case that Crowds and rioters are appropriate sites of collective responsibility.

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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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    • 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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