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    It is not the case that H.D. Lewis argued that holding individuals responsible for group acts they did not personally perform violates the foundational principle that responsibility is irreducibly personal.

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    • 1.Individuals benefit from and participate in institutional systems (corporate, national, historical) whose harms they didn't personally execute.
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    • 2.Responsibility can be distributed through complicity, negligence, and structural participation without direct action being required.
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    • 3.Strict personal responsibility doctrine permits systemic injustices to escape accountability when no individual can be isolated as solely responsible.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Moral culpability requires causal agency: only those who performed or directly enabled an act bear responsibility for it.
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    • 2.Punishing individuals for group actions they opposed or couldn't prevent violates basic fairness and the principle of moral desert.
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    • 3.Personal responsibility grounds both moral accountability and legal justice; collective responsibility dissolves these essential distinctions.
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