Moral responsibility isn't additive but distributive. The law has this one right: if a Mafia don orders a hitman to take out a rival; they are both fully guilty of murder, not half each. Bush, Cheney, Yoo, Addington, Goss, two CIA staffers, and a guy in a cellar conspire to waterboard Abu Zubaydah: the responsibility for the war crime of torture is not ⅛ ⅛ ⅛ …. but 1 1 1 … (All right, we'll knock down Bush and Yoo to 1/2 on rounds of mental incapacity, but the point holds.)
The whole post is worth reading. It's written by a squishy-headed, bleeding-heart liberal, but I'm hard pressed to show why he's wrong, at least in principle.
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