ABSTRACT
This chapter will first recapitulate the various predicaments vulnerable civilians in the Cultural Revolution were dealing with. It will then suggest how the various ways in which civilian participants may be ascribed responsibility can be seen as different strategies by which vulnerable agents may cope with their moral impairment or even moral death. To conclude the book, it will be argued that in trying to make peace with their wrongful past, civilian participants, instead of making use of their vulnerability to excuse themselves of moral responsibility, may choose not to take advantage of their vulnerability, declaring that they are still sensitive to salient moral facts and considerations, and ready to have responsibility attributed to them or to assume moral responsibility.
