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    Challenges→Collective moral responsibility can be unfair in particular cases, even if it is not inherently unfair.

    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.Individual fairness requires assessing what specific persons did or controlled; groups lack unified agency or causal responsibility.
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    • 2.Holding individuals accountable for collective outcomes they didn't cause violates basic proportionality in moral judgment.
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    • 3.Coherent moral frameworks require matching responsibility levels to actual decision-making capacity and causal efficacy.
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    • 1.Groups can possess irreducible emergent properties; collective decisions aren't reducible to individual intentions or actions.
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    • 2.Individuals benefit from unjust group structures; fairness may require addressing systemic harms even when no single person caused them.
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    • 3.Insisting on strict category separation ignores that individuals constitute groups and share responsibility for institutional outcomes.
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