Citizens remain morally responsible for atrocities committed in their nation’s name.

Evidence

This problem is: How does a society that has decided to take moral responsibility for its fate actually make decisions that fulfill that responsibility? — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 869 (#expands, via linked claim)

There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every injustice and every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed in his presence or of which he cannot be ignorant. If I do not do whatever I can to prevent them, I am an accomplice in them. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 926 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

When the government touches a corpse, it contaminates the private citizen. A modern nation that deals in state-sponsored death, becomes, in part, dead in itself; dead certainly, to the enlightened ideals from which America derives its existence as a nation. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 662 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A society that accepts moral responsibility still faces the question of how to decide. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 869; Each person shares responsibility for every injustice committed in his presence — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 926; State-sponsored death corrupts the moral life of a modern nation. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 662 (+2 more)

Related

• A society that accepts moral responsibility still faces the question of how to decide. (similarity 0.82)
• State-sponsored death corrupts the moral life of a modern nation. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• A society that accepts moral responsibility still faces the question of how to decide. #expands (0.70) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 869
• Each person shares responsibility for every injustice committed in his presence #corroborates (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 926
• State-sponsored death corrupts the moral life of a modern nation. #complicates (0.50) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 662
• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted #contradicts (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66