caa a22 4500 606238190 CHVBK 20210128101257.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9568-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9568-6 Zoller David California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA aut Moral Responsibility for Distant Collective Harms [Elektronische Daten] [David Zoller] While it is well recognized that many everyday consumer behaviors, such as purchases of sweatshop goods, come at a cost to the global poor, it has proven difficult to argue that even knowing, repeat contributors are somehow morally complicit in those outcomes. Some recent approaches contend that marginal contributions to distant harms are consequences that consumers straightforwardly should have born in mind, which would make consumers seem reckless or negligent. Critics reasonably reply that the bad luck that my innocent purchase contributes distantly to harm provides insufficient grounds for moral blame; moreover, such distant and seemingly inevitable collective effects are not by themselves obvious reasons for agents to refrain from acting. Granting these criticisms, I argue that the harm that agents do through knowing contributions to distant collective harm actually builds on the morally sparse agential phenomenology of everyday purchases and decisions: contributors who knowingly disregard distant harms, rather than being reckless or negligent about consequences they should have foreseen, very directly perpetuate the moral invisibility and the lack of recognition from which the global poor generally suffer. This provides agents with clearer moral reasons to refrain from knowing participation in unstructured collective harms, and clearer reason to bear them in mind in acting. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Collective nationallicence Responsibility nationallicence Complicity nationallicence Individual nationallicence Guilt nationallicence Phenomenology nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 995-1010 1386-2820 18:5<995 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9568-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9568-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zoller David California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 995-1010 1386-2820 18:5<995 2015 18 10677