Philosophy
The Ethics of Collective Responsibility and Structural Injustice
Quick fact
Philosopher Iris Marion Young argued that we each bear 'political responsibility' for structural injustice—not because we individually caused it, but because we participate in the social structures that sustain it, and we can collectively change those structures.
Why this is interesting
You probably didn't cause systemic racism, sexism, or climate change—yet you may be partly responsible for them. How can that be?