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When many of us find that we share an aim, we tend to cooperate in pursuing it. This makes sense; for by cooperating, we will often collectively be able to achieve that aim more effectively than if we had each pursued it independently. When we do this, we turn our common aim into a collective aim — the aim of a collective action that we perform together.
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Cullity, G. (2000). Pooled Beneficence. In: Almeida, M.J. (eds) Imperceptible Harms and Benefits. Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4144-4_1
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