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    Collective moral responsibility can be unfair in particul... — Carmelics
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    Collective moral responsibility can be unfair in particular cases, even if it is not inherently unfair.

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    • 1.Collective moral responsibility is not inherently unfair, as early critics such as H. D. Lewis claimed.
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    • 2.In some cases, a group's collective moral responsibility is unfair because the group has not made a sufficient contribution to the harm for which it is being blamed.
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    • 3.In other cases, a group's collective moral responsibility is unfair because the group did not know what was going on.
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    • 1.Fairness in responsibility attribution is determined by structural role in collective agency, not merely individual contribution or knowledge.
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    • 2.Members who voluntarily participate in institutions with known capacities for harm bear responsibility through that participatory stance alone.
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    • 3.Therefore, apparent 'unfairness' in collective cases often reflects a mistaken individualist baseline, not a genuine injustice to group members.
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    • 1.Peter French's corporate internal decision structure (CID) analysis shows collectives can be genuine moral agents independent of member awareness.
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    • 2.If a collective entity bears primary moral responsibility, the question of fairness to individual members is categorically distinct from the group's culpability.
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    • 3.Conflating group-level responsibility with individual-level fairness commits a category error that undermines the coherent framework for collective moral agency.
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    Presumably, not all groups which are appropriate sites of moral responsibility should be blamed. How, if at all, can groups which are appropriate sites of collective moral responsibility, in general, avoid blame in particular cases? While, as Andrés Garcia (2021) argues, collective moral responsibility is not itself inherently unfair in ways that early critics such as H. D. Lewis (1948) claimed, it can be unfair in particular cases. In some of these cases, its unfairness will be a matter of a gr
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