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    It is not the case that Individual members of a collectively responsible group are not necessarily blameless for the harms their group causes

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    • 1.Blameworthiness requires that an agent possess the capacity to have acted otherwise under the same structural conditions.
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    • 2.Individual members embedded in organizational hierarchies often lack the epistemic access and decision-making power required for genuine alternative action.
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    • 3.Where genuine alternative action is unavailable, attributing blame to individuals conflates causal contribution with moral culpability.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.The supporting arguments assume individual complicity can be inferred from group membership, but membership is often involuntary or structurally coerced.
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    • 3.Inferring individual blame from group-level wrongdoing without independent evidence of personal endorsement commits the fallacy of division.
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    • 1.Collective responsibility is non-distributional, meaning the group as a whole bears responsibility
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    • 2.Despite the non-distributional character of collective responsibility, many individual group members are themselves morally responsible for the harms their group causes
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