If you remove the factors of environment and incentives then no living thing does anything, ever. We have no less control of this than any other collective huma

If you remove the factors of environment and incentives then no living thing does anything, ever. We have no less control of this than any other collective human endeavor, and even if individual responsibility alone can’t practically stop something bad from happening, individuals are still morally responsible for their own contribution. It’s very comforting to absolve yourself of responsibility for something bad because everybody else is doing the same thing. Philosophically, it doesn’t hold water. A looter is no less morally culpable for stealing because they had significant incentives to loot a store, everybody with them was also looting the store, and there’s no way their abstinence could have stopped the store from being looted