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    It is not the case that Collective moral responsibility is both possible and appropriate to attribute to 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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    • 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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