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    It would be wrong to hold someone responsible for harm th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Group members who openly resist or fight against their community's bad actions or policies should not be held collectively responsible for those actions.

    It would be wrong to hold someone responsible for harm they actively worked against.

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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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