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    Challenges→A group can be morally blameworthy only if the group's actions are associated with a grave matter, the group has full knowledge of guilt, and there was full consent of the will.

    Peter French's work on Corporate Internal Decision structures shows corporations can act as moral agents independently of the knowledge or consent of individual members.

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    • 1.Corporations have formal decision-making structures (boards, policies) that operate independently of any single member's beliefs or consent.
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    • 2.If entities with unified decision procedures can be held legally responsible, they should also bear moral responsibility for their actions.
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    • 3.Some corporate harms result from systemic structure rather than individual wrongdoing, requiring corporate-level moral analysis.
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    • 1.Moral agency requires phenomenal consciousness and subjective experience; corporations lack these regardless of decision structures.
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    • 2.Corporate actions ultimately trace to individual decisions; attributing agency to the corporation obscures actual human moral responsibility.
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    • 3.Legal personhood is a useful fiction for liability; it doesn't establish that corporations possess genuine moral agency or intentions.
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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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