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David Miller on National Responsibility

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The Importance of National Responsibility

The key is really the kind of relationship that exists in the collective, and whether it meets certain conditions or fairness. How can I be responsible for things my parents did? That's outside my control. On your view, we can be held responsible for things that happened before our births. Is that what you're saying? Yes, with suitable adjustment. The broad idea of example of national inheritance does actually make sense. When we're born into a nation, we inherit, without actually doing anything, a whole raft of advantages in the form of material capital, human capital, culture and so on and so forth. And along with that, we may also inherit certain liabilities where it can be shown that

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