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    Group members who openly resist or fight against their co... — Carmelics
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    Group members who openly resist or fight against their community's bad actions or policies should not be held collectively responsible for those actions.

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    • 1.Collective responsibility is ascribed to those who participate in or fail to oppose a group's harmful actions.
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    • 2.Dissenters actively oppose their community's bad actions or policies rather than participating in them.
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    • 3.It would be wrong to hold someone responsible for harm they actively worked against.
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    • 1.Membership in a community confers ongoing benefits (security, resources, identity) that persist even when one dissents from specific policies.
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    • 2.Accepting communal benefits while remaining a member creates a form of complicity that active dissent on isolated issues does not fully negate.
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    • 3.Arendt's notion of political responsibility holds that we are responsible for the polities we belong to regardless of personal innocence or guilt.
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    • 1.Dissent that fails to actually prevent harm may be insufficient to sever the causal connection between group membership and collective wrongdoing.
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    • 2.Jaspers' concept of political guilt assigns responsibility to all citizens for the state's actions when they lack the power to have prevented them, regardless of protest.
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    Interestingly enough, one of the major points of agreement among those now writing about collective responsibility is that responsibility cannot be distributed to those group members who openly resist or fight against their communities’ bad actions or policies. See here, for example, the arguments of Joel Feinberg (1968), Peter French (1998), Howard McGary (1986), J. R. Lucas (1993), and Michele Moody-Adams (1994). While the above writers, who find collective responsibility to be a compelling mo
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