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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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