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    It is not the case that Dissenters can be morally blameworthy even if they cannot control the system that implicates them in evil.

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    • 1.Moral blameworthiness requires some form of control or authorship over the act or omission in question, as Kant and Frankfurt both argue.
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    • 2.A dissenter who actively opposes a system exercises no authorship over that system's harmful outputs.
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    • 3.Blaming dissenters for outcomes they neither endorsed nor could alter conflates causal involvement with moral agency.
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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes ground blame in the quality of an agent's will directed toward others, not in group membership.
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    • 2.A dissenter's will is oriented against the collective evil, making resentment or indignation toward them a category error under Strawsonian ethics.
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    • 1.Moral blameworthiness need not require that the blameworthy individual control the actions or harms for which they are blamed.
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    • 2.Moral blameworthiness can be located in the greater community of which the individual is a part, rather than in the will of the discrete individual.
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