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    It is not the case that Collective moral blameworthiness does not follow automatically from group moral agency.

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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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    • 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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