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    Requiring 'full knowledge' as a necessary condition syste... — Carmelics
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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.

    Requiring 'full knowledge' as a necessary condition systematically exempts the most powerful groups, who benefit from epistemic insulation from the harms they cause.

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    • 1.Powerful groups control information flows and can selectively avoid learning about harms they cause through institutional gatekeeping.
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    • 2.Lower-powered groups cannot claim ignorance about harms affecting them, creating asymmetrical accountability standards.
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    • 3.Legal and moral systems often accept willful ignorance as exculpatory when applied to elites but not marginalized populations.
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    • 1.Full knowledge requirements reflect epistemic standards for justified belief, not power dynamics—applicable to any agent regardless of status.
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    • 2.Powerful groups often face *higher* scrutiny and documentation burdens; regulators impose affirmative disclosure duties specifically on them.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'knowledge is hard to obtain' with 'powerful groups are exempted'—different explanations require different solutions.
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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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