Responsibility for Justice

I really appreciate Young's distinction between guilt and responsibility and, similarly, between a liability model of responsibility for injustice and a social connection model. In discussions about injustice, it is easy to get caught up in whether I, as an individual, am at fault for the ills of the world. Young describes this perspective as unproductive. Rather than trying to place blame for great social injustices that transcend individuals, we can realize that we have a social connection to the rest of the world. We might not be guilty of specific infractions against other people, but we do have a collective responsibility to work to rectify problems and work for justice.