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    Forward-looking collective responsibility is morally salient because it can help bring about a desirable state of affairs if taken seriously by those held responsible.

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    • 1.Forward-looking responsibility, when taken seriously by those who bear it, can help bring about a desirable or better state of affairs in the world.
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    • 2.Moral salience of a form of responsibility derives from the positive outcomes it can produce when acted upon.
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    • 1.Moral salience of responsibility must be grounded in backward-looking desert and agency, not merely in prospective utility (Kant, Strawson).
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    • 2.A responsibility justified solely by its consequences can require holding innocent parties responsible whenever doing so produces good outcomes.
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    • 3.This collapses moral responsibility into a tool of social engineering, severing it from the conditions of genuine accountability.
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    • 1.Collective entities often lack the unified intentional agency required for responsibility attributions to generate genuine motivational uptake (French, List & Pettit).
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    • 2.If the bearers of forward-looking responsibility cannot recognize themselves as the relevant agent, the assignment fails to produce the intended behavioral change.
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    • 3.The causal efficacy that grounds the claim's moral salience is therefore empirically contingent in ways that undermine its normative force.
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    What is morally salient about forward looking collective responsibility? Backward looking collective responsibility, as we have seen, is morally salient because of its association with blameworthiness. Forward looking responsibility is not completely removed from considerations of blame—we sometimes blame those who fail to take their responsibilities seriously—but it is not morally salient because blame sometimes enters the picture. Instead, it is morally salient because we think that such respo
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