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    Challenges→Collective moral blameworthiness does not follow automatically from group moral agency.

    The additional conditions (grave matter, knowledge, consent) are borrowed from individual Catholic moral theology and do not transfer coherently to corporate agency structures.

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    • 1.Corporate agents lack unified consciousness; 'knowledge' and 'consent' require intentional states that distributed decision-making cannot possess.
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    • 2.Individual moral theology assumes metaphysical unity of will; corporations fragment agency across roles, diluting personal moral accountability.
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    • 3.Applying individual conditions to corporations obscures structural culpability by falsely attributing unified intentionality to institutional processes.
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    • 1.Corporate knowledge exists through information accessible to authorized decision-makers; absence of phenomenal consciousness doesn't negate epistemic states.
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    • 2.Consent operates through formal governance structures and policy adoption; corporations demonstrably make binding collective decisions via these mechanisms.
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    • 3.Rejecting individual conditions for corporations either denies corporate moral responsibility entirely or requires incoherent new standards without principled justification.
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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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