High Stake Coordination Problems: Do We Need to Reach Beyond Individual Duties to Solve Them?

This chapter argues that collectivist duties do not significantly affect our individual obligations in certain important coordination problems. These are moral high stake versions of the so-called Hi-Lo cases. This also means that the conflict between collectivists and individualists, who resist the collectivist move, is not that stark in these cases. Along the way, I will also show that Hi-Lo cases are of interest to all kinds of moral theories, not just consequentialism, for which it is usually seen as a challenge.