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    Forward-looking collective responsibility is not morally ... — Carmelics
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    Forward-looking collective responsibility is not morally salient primarily because of its association with blame.

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    • 1.Backward-looking collective responsibility is morally salient because of its association with blameworthiness.
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    • 2.Forward-looking responsibility is not morally salient for the same reason backward-looking responsibility is morally salient.
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    • 3.Although blame can enter the picture when forward-looking responsibilities are neglected, this is not the primary source of forward-looking responsibility's moral salience.
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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes show that blame is not merely backward-looking but constitutively shapes future-oriented moral relationships.
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    • 2.If blame structures the normative expectations that generate forward-looking duties, then forward-looking responsibility cannot be meaningfully separated from blame's moral salience.
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    • 3.Held's account of task-responsibility presupposes that blameworthy neglect of prospective duties is what gives those duties their binding force in the first place.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle grounds forward-looking obligations in the very reactive practices—censure, social pressure—that blame makes intelligible.
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    • 2.A forward-looking responsibility lacking any essential connection to blame collapses into mere prudential advice, losing its distinctively moral character.
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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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