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Personal responsibility in the moral maze

Personal responsibility in the moral maze

Do circumstances constrain our capacity to choose how to behave?

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Melanie Phillips
Feb 18, 2021
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Michael Buerk, in the chair on the Moral Maze

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we discussed personal responsibility in the light of the pandemic. With social restrictions such as curbing family or social gatherings, self-isolating or wearing masks, we asked whether it was fair or right to expect the public to share the responsibility for slowing the …

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