Don't You Think That Complicity in the Decision Changes the Moral Situation?

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"I think you're on to something, but I'm not quite sure that it matters in this case," he says. "We're trying to decide between two different ways of distributing money." The second scheme is a little bit more unequal because someone's going to get nothing and the question is: Does complicity in the decision changes the moral situation?" He adds 'they're not strangers' as much as they are people who have made decisions for themselves.

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