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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.

    Lack of knowledge is a morally relevant factor for assigning blame.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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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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