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    It is not the case that Forward-looking collective responsibility is not morally salient primarily because of its association with blame.

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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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    • 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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