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    It is not the case that Members who voluntarily participate in institutions with known capacities for harm bear responsibility through that participatory stance alone.

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    • 1.Responsibility requires causal contribution to harm, not mere participation in institutions with harmful capacities.
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    • 2.Many institutions with known harms lack viable alternatives, making 'voluntary' participation practically coercive.
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    • 3.Stance-based responsibility conflates complicity with actual agency, obscuring degrees of moral culpability.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Voluntary participation signals consent to accept the foreseeable consequences and moral weight of membership.
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    • 2.Choosing to join despite known harms makes one complicit in perpetuating those institutional capacities.
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    • 3.Responsibility attaches to choices that sustain harmful systems, regardless of individual contribution magnitude.
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