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    It is not the case that Excluding corporations from retributive punishment conflates the psychological conditions for individual desert with the structural conditions for institutional desert.

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    • 1.Corporate structures create unified decision-making agents distinct from individuals. A corporation's decision-making apparatus constitutes genuine agency.
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    • 2.Retributive desert doesn't require subjective psychological experience—only that an entity performed wrong action and had control over its performance.
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    • 3.Excluding corporations from retribution treats them as morally special without justification, creating perverse incentives to harm through organizational structures.
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    • 1.Desert requires capacities for moral agency: intentionality, deliberation, and accountability. Corporations lack these psychological features individuals possess.
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    • 2.Institutional entities can be held responsible through regulatory mechanisms without invoking retributive punishment, which assumes moral culpability.
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    • 3.Conflating individual and corporate desert risks punishing dispersed stakeholders (workers, shareholders) who didn't participate in wrongdoing.
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