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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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