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The objection that ‘words are just words!’ or that ‘people should be able to say whatever they like’ ignores the important fact that words not only cause certain acts, they are also often themselves acts, and it is much harder to make the argument that ‘people should be able to act however they like!’
Arguing for a Better World
Arianne Shahvisi
“It’s the structures of society that we’ve got to change. We don’t change men’s hearts. . . . It doesn’t make a great deal of difference what the people are; if they’re in the system, they’re going to function like the system dictates they function. . . . __I’ve been more concerned with structural changes than I have with changing hearts of people__.”
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
On the RIM, the question of sanctions is already built into the concept of a role itself, since to occupy a role just is to be subject to expectations maintained by internal and external sanctions. As with the SCM, __holding agents accountable for structural injustice does not amount to blaming or punishing them, and hence does not require meeting the conditions for ascribing attributability; rather, it is (as on all models of responsibility as accountability) to assign them the burdens of changing that structure.__
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
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