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    A group can be morally blameworthy only if the group's actions are associated with a grave matter, the group has full knowledge of guilt, and there was full consent of the will.

    Moral Responsibility
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    • 1.Moral blameworthiness requires that the action in question concerns a grave matter.
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    • 2.Moral blameworthiness requires that the agent has full knowledge of guilt.
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    • 3.Moral blameworthiness requires full consent of the will.
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    • 1.Structural injustice theorists like Iris Marion Young argue blameworthiness can arise from participation in unjust systems without full knowledge or consent.
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    • 2.Groups embedded in harmful institutional structures bear responsibility for outcomes even when individual members lack complete awareness of collective harm.
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    • 3.Requiring 'full knowledge' as a necessary condition systematically exempts the most powerful groups, who benefit from epistemic insulation from the harms they cause.
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    • 1.Peter French's work on Corporate Internal Decision structures shows corporations can act as moral agents independently of the knowledge or consent of individual members.
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    • 2.If group agency is irreducible to individual agency, then conditions like 'full consent of the will' cannot coherently apply, since no single will constitutes the group's will.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    List and Pettit devote a great deal of their own attention to how we might use our recognition of these obligations, entitlements, and power relations to re-work various institutions in contemporary society. But they do not neglect the question of collective moral blameworthiness. Nor do they simply assume that such blameworthiness follows automatically from group moral agency. Instead they make clear that in order for a group to be morally blameworthy, its actions must be associated with a “gra
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