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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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