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    It is not the case that 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.

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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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    • 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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