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    Challenges→Mobs can be held collectively responsible even though they lack formal decision-making procedures and organized structure.

    Where the structural conditions for deliberation are absent, the attribution of collective responsibility collapses into either scapegoating individuals or punishing mere presence.

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    Attribution(as in whether a hair color can be reliably assigned to a term)
    Assigning or connecting a particular quality or characteristic to something—like saying a trait 'belongs to' or 'describes' that thing.
    Punishing mere presence(the other harmful outcome that replaces fair collective responsibility when deliberation conditions collapse)
    Holding someone accountable just because they were in a place where something bad happened, without proving they actually did anything wrong.
    Scapegoating(one harmful outcome that happens when proper conditions for deliberation are missing)
    Blaming one person for problems that really belong to a whole group, unfairly making them the sole target of anger.
    Structural conditions(Modern conception of mathematical theories, illustrated by Dedekind 1888)
    General conditions characterizing mathematical theories that might be had in common by any number of different ordered domains.

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    collective responsibility(Used to motivate inclusion of non-Kantian frameworks in moral theorizing)
    A form of responsibility attributed to groups rather than solely to individuals; the passage treats it as requiring non-Kantian or expanded notions of moral responsibility
    deliberation(Aristotelian practical reasoning)
    A form of practical reasoning in which an agent has some end and reasons to a sufficient means for achieving that end.

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