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    If retributive desert tracks culpable agency rather than ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Certain kinds of persons (such as children or the insane) or entities (such as states or corporations) may not deserve punishment under retributivism.

    If retributive desert tracks culpable agency rather than individual human psychology, corporations that knowingly cause harm satisfy the agency condition for desert.

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    • 1.Corporations have decision-making structures (boards, policies) that constitute genuine agency distinct from individual psychology.
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    • 2.Knowingly causing harm requires intentional choice, which corporations demonstrate through deliberate cost-benefit analyses ignoring risks.
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    • 3.If we hold corporations legally responsible for contracts and torts, denying moral desert for knowing harm is inconsistent.
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    • 1.Corporate 'agency' is ultimately reducible to individual executives' intentions; desert requires culpability at the level where consciousness exists.
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    • 2.Retributive desert assumes the capacity for moral understanding and remorse—corporations lack the phenomenological states that justify punishment.
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    • 3.Punishing corporations harms innocent shareholders/employees; individual human psychology matters precisely because humans bear the actual suffering.
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