Individual Responsibility

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Share of Group Culpability

Consequentialism based exclusively on individual behaviors can become murky when we deal with behaviors that require group effort to have results, particularly when we assume it as a given that the group either will or will not do something.

Take, for example, the execution with ten gunmen firing on a target. If we assume that nine gunshots would be just as lethal as ten, and that every single other gunman will certainly fire, the culpability for murder from the tenth gunman seems nil when we look at the consequences.