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Article: Collective Responsibility and Duties to Respond.
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- Social Theory and Practice
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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I recently heard an interview with a man who survived a massacre committed on his friends and family by some members of a rival ethnic group. Asked what he thought were the prospects for future peaceful coexistence between the two groups, his reply went something like this: "I know that not all of them were in on it. Not all of them have blood on their hands. But, you know, not one of them has come up to me and said, `I'm sorry for what my people did.'" He felt that even those among his neighbors who did not actually harm him or his loved ones owed him something--an apology, or at least an expression of regret. On most traditional accounts of responsibility, ...