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    Individuals can avoid blame by pleading ignorance when th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A group that lacked knowledge of the relevant events may avoid blame through a plea of ignorance, analogous to how individuals avoid blame through ignorance.

    Individuals can avoid blame by pleading ignorance when they did not know what was going on.

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    Presumably, not all groups which are appropriate sites of moral responsibility should be blamed. How, if at all, can groups which are appropriate sites of collective moral responsibility, in general, avoid blame in particular cases? While, as Andrés Garcia (2021) argues, collective moral responsibility is not itself inherently unfair in ways that early critics such as H. D. Lewis (1948) claimed, it can be unfair in particular cases. In some of these cases, its unfairness will be a matter of a gr

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