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    It is not the case that Collective moral responsibility can be unfair in particular cases, even if it is not inherently unfair.

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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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    • 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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