Individual vs Collective

The framework's hardest line: responsibility follows action, not identity. No matter how convenient the shortcut — family, nation, race, vote share, religion — assigning guilt or authority by group membership produces innocent victims. The dictionary's rules on collective punishment, collective responsibility, and the individual basis of rights all converge on the same point: agents are units of one. Anything that treats them as units of many is power assertion, not justice.

Core terms

individual collective agency rights collective punishment collective responsibility authority

Scenarios

  1. 1 The Family Visa Refusal
  2. 2 Sanctions Against the Population
  3. 3 The Democratic Mandate