Moral co-responsibility in food production and consumption

Hilde W. Nagell

Moral co-responsibility in food production and consumption

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Hilde W. Nagell

Hilde W. Nagell The National Committees for Research Ethics, Prinsensgt.18, P.O Box 522 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo, Norway, hilde.nagell@etikkom.no

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Pages:: 143–148

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865758_024

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This paper asks: When are we co-responsible for harmful outcomes? Individual responsibility depends on such notions as causation, choice, agency and the ability to do otherwise. However, when each one of us is only marginally attached to the harmful act, and the causal link between individual behaviour and the non-preferred outcome is vague at best, our common sense notions of responsibility tells us that we are not individually responsible. Call this the limited individual responsibility position. This paper will challenge this position, and establish a wider notion of responsibility based on the idea that we are sometimes responsible for how our actions together with others can have affects which concern society as a whole. The paper examines and critically questions three common excuses for avoiding responsibility in cases of collective action: “If I don’t do it, someone else will”, “I had no choice”, and “I didn’t know”. I will relate the discussion to the production and consumption of food.

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Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086865758

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2006

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