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

    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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    Key Terms

    Forward-looking duties(as used in ethics and responsibility theory)
    Obligations or responsibilities that focus on what you should do in the future, rather than punishing what you did in the past.
    Forward-looking responsibility(as used in ethics)
    The idea that being responsible means focusing on your future actions and obligations, rather than dwelling on past mistakes.
    Meaningfully separated(as used in philosophical analysis)
    Treated as truly distinct or independent; distinguished in a way that actually makes a real difference.
    Moral salience(as used in ethics and moral psychology)
    How much a moral issue stands out or catches your attention—like how the suffering of one person you know might feel more important to you than a statistic about thousands of strangers.

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    blame(Scanlon's contractualist account)
    A reactive attitude directed at the attitudes a person actually holds, not a judgment about whether the person could have done otherwise.
    normative expectations(social norm theory)
    Expectations about what others believe ought to be done, as distinct from empirical expectations about what others will actually do.

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