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    Collective moral blameworthiness does not follow automatically from group moral agency.

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    • 1.Group moral agency is a necessary but not sufficient condition for moral blameworthiness.
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    • 2.Additional conditions — grave matter, full knowledge of guilt, and full consent of the will — must also be satisfied.
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    • 1.When a group possesses genuine moral agency, its intentional wrongful acts are constitutively sufficient to establish blameworthiness without further conditions.
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    • 2.The additional conditions (grave matter, knowledge, consent) are borrowed from individual Catholic moral theology and do not transfer coherently to corporate agency structures.
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    • 3.Peter French's corporate internal decision structure (CID) analysis entails that once group intentionality is established, culpability is entailed by the wrongful act itself.
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    • 1.Structural injustice theory (Young, Kutz) shows collective blameworthiness can arise from participatory intentions even absent full organizational moral agency.
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    • 2.If blameworthiness can precede full agency, then agency is neither necessary nor sufficient for blameworthiness, undermining the claim's conditional framing entirely.
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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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