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Broadly, there's two types of views regarding justice and how to construct a moral society: systemic responsibility vs individual responsibility. For the system
by hackinthebochs 4y ago
Broadly, there's two types of views regarding justice and how to construct a moral society: systemic responsibility vs individual responsibility. For the systemic responsibility view, you pull any and every lever to result in more preferable outcomes. For example, the response to rampant gun violence is more gun control. Here it makes sense to ask why we are not pulling every lever to prevent deaths from gun violence as we are deaths from abortion. This is in contrast to the individual responsibility view. Here, the response to immoral behavior is punishment for the wrongdoer only. Systemic issues are not relevant. In this case, there is no contradiction to punish women who get abortions and not increase restrictions on guns. (Of course, individuals will have views that are varying combinations of the two.)
- maxerickson 4y agoIt's interesting how the "individual responsibility" mechanism works by depriving people of agency. Not gun owners of course, but the victims of gun violence.