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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires causal agency; those who cannot prevent an act lack the necessary condition for guilt.
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    • 2.Assigning guilt for powerlessness conflates responsibility with mere membership, making ethical judgment arbitrary.
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    • 3.This framework risks excusing actual perpetrators by distributing blame so widely that individual accountability dissolves.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Citizens benefit from state infrastructure and protection, creating implicit consent and shared stake in state actions.
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    • 2.Collective political guilt motivates citizens to strengthen democratic mechanisms that prevent future atrocities.
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    • 3.Diffused responsibility acknowledges that systemic injustice requires systemic complicity, not just active perpetration.
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