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    If blameworthiness can precede full agency, then agency i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Collective moral blameworthiness does not follow automatically from group moral agency.

    If blameworthiness can precede full agency, then agency is neither necessary nor sufficient for blameworthiness, undermining the claim's conditional framing entirely.

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    • 1.Children can be blamed for actions before developing full rational agency, showing blameworthiness doesn't require complete agency.
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    • 2.If agency were necessary for blame, we couldn't justify holding anyone accountable until mature rationality develops—an absurd result.
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    • 3.The conditional assumes agency is a threshold condition, but partial agency with sufficient understanding may suffice for blame.
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    • 1.The claim confuses 'precede' (temporal ordering) with 'independence.' Early blame may still require minimal agency levels to be justified.
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    • 2.Showing blameworthiness doesn't require *full* agency doesn't undermine the conditional—it only requires some meaningful agency threshold.
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    • 3.The argument equivocates on 'necessary': agency may not be sufficient alone but remain necessary as one required component among others.
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