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    If the bearers of forward-looking responsibility cannot r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→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.

    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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    • 1.Behavioral change requires causal self-recognition: agents must see themselves as the link between their actions and consequences.
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    • 2.Responsibility assignments that obscure agency (e.g., diffusion across groups) empirically fail to modify individual conduct.
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    • 3.Forward-looking responsibility presupposes the agent can form intentions about their future conduct, requiring self-identification.
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    • 1.Behavioral change occurs through external incentives and social pressure regardless of whether agents recognize personal agency.
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    • 2.People often change behavior without explicit self-recognition: habit formation, internalized norms, and habituation work implicitly.
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    • 3.The claim conflates necessary conditions for conscious intention-setting with necessary conditions for all behavioral modification.
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