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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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