Sharing responsibility

"Is moral responsibility limited only to the consequences of overt individual actions? Or are individuals also responsible for attitudes, inaction, and the consequences of actions taken by their communities?"--BOOK JACKET. "In this original work, Larry May argues that even when they do not directly participate, people share responsibility for various harms perpetrated by their communities. A robust theory of responsibility, May holds, must pay heed to the makeup of the self as well as to actions: not only "what we do," but in a larger sense, "who we are.""--BOOK JACKET. "Taking as its point…