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    Collective moral responsibility is both possible and appr... — Carmelics
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    Collective moral responsibility is both possible and appropriate to attribute to groups

    Moral Responsibility
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    • 1.There are notions of moral responsibility beyond the Kantian individual model
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    • 2.Alternative notions of moral responsibility cannot be dismissed merely for failing to conform to the Kantian framework
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    • 3.Moving beyond individual moral blameworthiness allows groups to be understood as morally blameworthy qua groups
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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires a unified deliberative agent capable of forming intentions, which groups structurally lack.
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    • 2.Without a singular locus of deliberation, attributing blame to a 'group' distributes across members or evaporates entirely.
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    • 3.H.D. Lewis's individualist principle holds that guilt is always personal, making collective guilt a category error.
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    • 1.Attributing moral responsibility to collectives risks absolving individual members by diffusing accountability across the group.
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    • 2.Peter French's corporate internal decision structures, even if real, describe causal not moral agency, conflating the two.
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    All three points should be liberating for those who want to re-think collective responsibility in ways that render it both possible and appropriate to groups. The first suggests that there are other notions of moral responsibility available to us. The second makes clear that these other notions of moral responsibility cannot be dismissed simply because they do not conform to the Kantian notion of morality. The third points to the need to move beyond what is by definition a notion of individual m
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