Collective inaction, omission, and non-action: when not acting is indeed on ‘us’

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• who: Anne Schwenkenbecher from the And, finally, (4) For very large and dispersed sets of agents there is often no meaningful way in which they can be said to have collectively failed where these agents lack collective ability and opportunity to produce the outcome in questionThus separating collective inaction from mere non-action prevents pointless proliferation of collective failings and potentially counterproductive ascriptions of blame and responsibility. I did not discuss the question of blameworthiness for collective inaction-this issue surely merits a paper in its own right. So let me finish off with only the briefest . . .
  

   

  

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