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Default vicarious moral responsibility

On 3/8/2012 12:05 AM, Rupert wrote:
> On Mar 7, 9:32 pm, George > wrote:
>> "glen" or "mark" or "little cocksucker" - the friend of Lesley Simon,
>> the Whore of Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon - has it. He shares
>> moral responsibility for the animal CDs caused in order to put food on
>> his plate. This cannot be rationally disputed.
>>
>> His relationship with the hands-on killers of animals has these elements:
>>
>> * the relationship is voluntary - no coercion applied to the principal
>>
>> * the principal is an active participant, i.e., actively engages in
>> the relationship such as, for example, going to the grocery
>>
>> * the principal is fully aware of the agent's actions
>>
>> * the relationship is not instrumentally necessary for the principal to
>> achieve a legitimate goal, e.g. the acquisition of food
>>
>> "mark" or "glen" or "little cocksucker" or whatever he is this week
>> doesn't need to hire an agent at all, and he doesn't need to hire one
>> who kills animals collaterally. That he does makes him share moral
>> responsibility for the deaths of animals. He cannot claim to be living
>> a "cruelty free 'lifestyle'", and he sure as hell isn't "minimizing" his
>> CD footprint because he has never measured.

>
> Your injection of carbon emission's into our planet's atmosphere has
> these elements:
>
> - It is voluntary; no-one is coercing you into doing it.
>
> - You are an active participant
>
> - You are fully aware of the likely consequences of continued
> injection of carbon emissions into our planet's atmosphere for other
> humans
>
> - It is not instrumentally necessary for you to achieve any
> legitimate goal.
>
> You therefore have vicarious moral responsibility for the future harms
> to humans that will take place that will have been contributed to by
> your activity.


Yep - I never denied it, either.