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    It is not the case that Peter French's corporate internal decision structure (CID) analysis shows collectives can be genuine moral agents independent of member awareness.

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    • 1.Moral agency requires consciousness or subjective experience; corporations lack these, making CID structure irrelevant to genuine agency.
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    • 2.CID analysis conflates structural efficiency with moral responsibility; a system that produces harm is still reducible to individual choices within it.
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    • 3.Member unawareness doesn't eliminate individual culpability; it merely obscures it—moral responsibility cannot float free of any conscious agent.
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    • 1.Corporations have formal decision procedures (policies, chains of command) that generate actions independent of any single member's intent or knowledge.
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    • 2.Moral agency requires intentional action and responsibility attribution; corporations satisfy both through their CID structures, just as persons do.
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    • 3.We hold corporations legally and practically accountable as unified agents; denying moral agency contradicts our actual treatment of them.
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