The main idea about group responsibility is that we-mode groups, namely, groups in which a substantial number of the members are collectively committed to the group (to its ethos and to each other concerning ethos promotion), are normatively responsible—in a control-based sense of responsibility—for their actions and for what their members, also violators and dissidents, do. In contrast to we-mode groups, I-mode groups, are not responsible as groups for actions or outcomes. However, their members are jointly responsible for what they intentionally jointly (although not as a group) cause.
Keywords: control-based group responsibility,, accountability-based group responsibility,, dissident,, prospective group responsibility,, retrospective group responsibility